Beach Day

After a rough weekend, my sweet friends took me to the beach for the day on a Sunday. I had a really bad weekend so far, so they decided to get me away from it all and relax. It was so nice and seriously, just what the doctor had ordered. So Jorge, Heber, Kelly and I headed to the shore. We stopped first at this place that has these pools and hung out for a little while. We had a picnic lunch there and Kelly and I read and laid out while the boys tried to stay out of the sun. Weird. ha ha. Here are Heber and Jorge laying in the shade trying to avoid the sun.

Then we drove on a little further to go to Puerto San Jose, which is a close beach town. We paid like $7 or so to park in this spot where you can use the bathrooms and these little tables right on the beach to hang out. We parked there and sat around and drank a beer while watching the sunset. There are some really pretty sunsets here. Kelly, Jorge, and I relaxing. This is quite the life!

Heber and I

Watching the sun go down, one of my favorite activities. Wait, can I really call that an activity?? Ha ha. One of my favorite things.

Beach at Puerto San Jose

More sun going down

Kelly taking it all in

We're almost there.

Kelly and Heber relaxing on the beach

Breaking through the clouds. It wasn't quite clear that night but it was still pretty!

That was about as far as we got before we took off.

Wow, so beautiful.

After hanging at the beach for a few hours and watching the sun and not even talking much, we headed back to the town of Esquintla where we visited Jorge's aunts and uncles. It is like this old hydroelectric plant where his family used to work. It is not functioning anymore, but the families who used to work there still own land and can live there. It was so cool. He told me we were going to stop and say hi to his grandma. Little did I know this meant a stop at the cemetery. I was a little freaked out to say the least. This place had no lights and I have not seen so many stars in a really really long time. I really enjoyed this day.