Rainy season has officially arrived here in Guatemala. The boy and I are still in the Central American leg of our round-the-world tour, and we are currently swimming around Antigua, Guatemala. We haven't seen the sun in several days, there's an almost New England quality to the gloomy gray skies. The only upside to this weather is that it makes the snail hunting much easier. We have adopted a couple of garden snails (OK, ten at last count) as pets, and the best time to find more is in the dark during a rainstorm. (Snails are both nocturnal and water-loving.) More on our creepy little pets later, we're off to the Paca now.
Château Escargot as seen from the outside. I'll post most more photos of their strange little world later.
We're heading to the Paca to take care of a few shopping needs. The Paca is an open-air/tucked under corrugated tin/vaguely sheltered by plastic tarps market area where you can find everything from used clothes from the States (I once scored a $700.00 Coach bag for three dollars), to fresh vegetables and not-so-fresh pigs' heads, to cell phone batteries to bootleg video games, to body-piercing jewelry, and virtually anything else that you can imagine. We've bought stick-on crystal body jewelry there just to glue the crystals on the snails' shells so we can tell them apart. (Yes, therapy is probably in order, if not for us then definitely for the glammed-up hermaphroditic snails.)
Some of the snails worshipping one of their two Tiki idols, bringer of all things good and veggie.
Château Escargot as seen from the outside. I'll post most more photos of their strange little world later.
We're heading to the Paca to take care of a few shopping needs. The Paca is an open-air/tucked under corrugated tin/vaguely sheltered by plastic tarps market area where you can find everything from used clothes from the States (I once scored a $700.00 Coach bag for three dollars), to fresh vegetables and not-so-fresh pigs' heads, to cell phone batteries to bootleg video games, to body-piercing jewelry, and virtually anything else that you can imagine. We've bought stick-on crystal body jewelry there just to glue the crystals on the snails' shells so we can tell them apart. (Yes, therapy is probably in order, if not for us then definitely for the glammed-up hermaphroditic snails.)
Some of the snails worshipping one of their two Tiki idols, bringer of all things good and veggie.
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