Update On Libby: Weekend in Flores

Steph and I just spent the weekend in Flores, a little island-town near the Mayan ruins Tikal. It was PERFECT! I didn´t really know what to expect, but it was soo much fun. We took the overnight bus from the city to Flores on Thursday night. Diana had made reservations at a hotel, which were great. It was only about $30 a night, and was right on the lake and close to a bunch of great restaurants. The town is pretty touristy, and we met people from the US, Canada, and Europe. Most of them were traveling throughout Central America.
My devotion the other day was explaining how we often miss the small signs or actions from God, dismissing them as coincidences or luck, because we tend to look for huge signs or miracles. To me, everything that happened this weekend were small actions of God. Two girls with an intermediate knowledge of Spanish traveling to a new place 8 hours away for a weekend? Sounds kind of crazy, I know, but everything went smoothly. The town was so relaxing and the hotel worked out great. We were planning to check out Saturday morning, before leaving for Tikal, but the night before we realized that we didn´t want to carry our suitcases around Tikal. We asked if we could keep our room, but they said the hotel was completely booked. When we were leaving the next morning, he said that a room had opened up and they would only charge 1\3 of the price because we weren´t actually staying over night. What a relief!
There were several locals with canoes or small motor boats looking to take tourists around the lake.. most of them were 100-200 quetzales for an hour, but we found a nice guy who only asked for 20 and took us longer than we asked. He took us across the lake and showed us a great lookout spot, and we got to practice Spanish quite a bit.