Llegamos! Estamos en Xela. And we´re back to toilets that don´t flush toilet paper, electric showers, people constantly bugging you to buy something, dark alleys with a surplus of stray dogs, and hot, sweaty buses!! (And we´re somehow both enchanted by this?!) We really arrived with little to no trouble, in fact, it was almost too easy (knock on wood)! The first bit of anxiety came with knowing we had to pass through Mexico City which is the center of the swine flu AND they had had an earthquake the morning we were getting ready to leave! What next, right? But, since we´re both such intelligent girls, we stopped at Walgreens before heading to the airport and picked ourselves up a couple of medical face masks, which we found to fit in quite well in the
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