Wasting away in Escondido-land...

Hola, not a WHOLE lot to report here, but Im at the internet so I may as well update! We found a place in southern Escondido, right on the beach with a pool for 50 pesos a night...ha! Sooo we decided to stay till saturday! Tomorrow we'll pack up our bags and head along the coast to Puerto Angel, then keep going right on through to San Cristobel, where we'll stay during the halloween, all saints day and day of the dead celebrations. Its an old city and apparently it goes fairly nuts for this holiday, so it should be good! Plan is to go from San Cristobel to Palenque then cross into Guatemala along some kind of river boat from there. We're trying to find out as much as we can about the state of Guatemala, but its difficult, hopefully the situation will become clearer as we get closer to it! If Guatemala is too rough, then we may have to bus it back up to Mexico City, *shudder*, and fly to honduras, but hopefully thats not the case!

Days here are spent doing what we do best...which is lounging around, having the odd cocktail and reading a lot. Lots of great food in Escondido, they really like their pizza, so that's definitely working out for me! Had a bit of a scare last night when an earthquake hit us, lasted for about 10 seconds. Was weird because we could hear this low but loud rumbling out over the ocean and just as we were asking each other what that was, the ground started shaking! Not to worry though, in our constant state of high awareness, we immediately pondered the likelyhood of a tsunami and inquired into it with the guy that runs the hotel. He just looked at us, laughed and said, "tsunami come, we all wash away amigos...", so that was reassuring. Luckily the water level didnt drastically recede so we figured it was safe to go back to our bottle of rum. Plans for today include: attempting to finish my book and eating dinner. Its a lot, I know, but hopefully I can get it done before the sun goes down. Adios!