La Ruta Maya

Ahnna typing: ok, I'm tired, it's been a long day, so I appologize ahead of time for the short blog :o).
So as it turns out Chris will not be paddeling in La Ruta Maya. His other team members were not up to tip top condition and therefore decided to bail out till next year. Which personally I think was a blessing even though I'm sure it would have been an amazing expirience for Chris. It will at least save him some money that he would have had to pay to enter the race (which wasn't information given to him before he agreed to do it...:op). So instead we joined the support crew for another team (friends of the people we are staying with at Barton Creek) and will be following along, land side, to set up tents, help cook, cheer them on etc. Which I think will be fun as well. So right now we are at an amazing house in San Ignacio staying the night and tomorrow we head out to camp till Monday. Chris also hopes to gain some money as being the camp massage therapist to all the sore people rowing canoes all day.

So, as said earlier, the whole MET thing didn't work out as planned, but luckily we've got a spot helping out at their friend's place down the road called Barton Creek. It's a really pretty little spot right next to the creek with a swimming hole, a rope swing and some (I hear) beautiful caves up the way a bit. We haven't gone to check them out yet. We are staying in their loft above the restraunt while we volunteer our services as 'landscapers', 'cooks', 'dishwashers', and at times 'sign painters' :o). There is deffinately a lot of work for us to do there as it's pretty much just the family and a couple locals to run the place. We are going to be taking it a day at a time to see if it really works out, and it would be nice if it does. Though personally I'm really kinda dissapointed that I don't get to work with horses and have to substitute it for kitchen work :op. so we'll see. Apparently MET usually needs more help in the summer time when there is less guests and more room for people to be there to help with fixing the place up. And then the 'help' gets to ride more ofton as well because the horses aren't being ridden by guests...so i might be able to wait a couple months for that :o). Ok, that's pretty much what is new for now and I'm sure in about a week or so when we have computer access again (there isn't any out at Barton Creek) Chris will leave a wonderful, detailed post. He's much better at that than I :o). Off to bed soon for me, loves!
Ahnna