Flores and bus to Guatemala City

After Tikal, we went back to Flores to hang til 9 :30 pm for our nite bus to Guatamala City. We found an awesome internet cafe and backed up our photos on a CD, $2. Cathleen gave away her 20 pound Harry Potter book to a great hostel called Anjelicas. We napped for 2 hours and got up to catch the bus at 9:30. There was a bus there we thought was ours and it was sweet, withthe seats way up high, very high class, but we were told that was NOT our bus, we had to wait for the other one. Ours rolls in and it was like the one with no air conditioning that we had taken from Belize City. Yuck. But we dealt and we had assigned seats, the ones in teh way back, by the toilets. Luckily no one used them and hey, these seats turned out to sit WAY back more, so we sletp about 4 hours of hte trip, nice.
We drove past Poptun and that's the last city I was awake for. I wish we couldve seen the country side as it looks amazing in the misty nite. Cathleen and I discussed renting with a couple other people and driving through the country next time, so we can stop where we want. I think we both feel now that we've been here and gotten somewhat familiar, it would be a great way to return and see more details.
Arriving in GC at 6 AM, the city opened up and we drove 20 minutes through the city to get
tot he bus station. The chicken buses were all over, these souped up, pimped out school buses. Chrome fenders!
The bus station's gate opend for our bus to enter, to keep people out who dont belong there. Our minibus driver Saira, met us at the station, it was great to be greeted by someone who knew our names and spoke English. Through the busy station and city, she led us out to Antigua. There were 3 other people in the minibus going to Antigua also. We passed by chrome fender shops for the buses and an hour later, we were in Antigua.