Day #9, Returning to Cape, last day in Guatemala

After a busy eight days, we're ready to return home. We left for the Guatemala City airport at 10 a.m. from Hotel Casa Antigua on Monday, July 1. We had some time to walk around Antigua prior to our departure: last minute trips to the market, packing, walking around Antigua, or buying our last Guatemalan coffee.

Monday morning, half an hour before departure,  an Antigua street half a block from our hotel. We walked down this street, towards the volcano, to go to the banks, the main plaza, artists' markets, and past a team favorite restaurant, Monoloco.







Esperanza and Edgar gave us yellow ribbons to tie to our suitcases so they'd be easier to spot in the airport. ¡Gracias a los dos! It made it much easier in Miami and Logan to pull any yellow-ribboned bag off the conveyor belt. We had our 26+ bags all together in no time. We learned this trick from a large Bangor mission trip traveling with us on the flight down to Guatemala.

The hotel courtyard, while we're waiting to load vans.  Hotel personnel arranged fresh flowers in the fountain after a Saturday morning market trip to buy flowers.

Waiting in hotel lobby, Monday morning. Ready to return to Maine.

Van #1 on the way to Guate Airport, leaving Antigua area.