Going Christmas Loco

Acupulco! How wierd it is to have christmas here! it must be at least 30 degrees and its very very humid.. i doubt santa would keep his red coat on long. I really did miss the christmas dinner (we had a small steak sort of dinner in the afternoon outside at a restaurant, and taco´s in the evening) but am looking forward to the homecoming xmas dinner in february back in old whitley bay. Yay!! Shhh you shodulnt wish time away should you. I really missed my family yesterday (which is a good thing, isnt it).

Me and Matt jumped in the sea on christmas day afternoon because it was so hot. It looked like evryone had brought their families to spend the day in the bay. How different to being at home with the family? THey had all their gear there and were camped for the day. It was incredible, nice and warm water and much joy and merriment. It was splashing and hand stands and salty water and avoiding boats, and to be in amongst all the fascinating faces in the nice water made the day for me. Later on i think i did some wrestling, but that was a different kind of merriment. We met a small man called Manwell (who had 13 children) and all his family, they treated us to a beer by the water from their cooler box. His grandma was eating a corn on the cob for over an hour, she didnt have any teeth.

Getting to Acupulco was horrid though. We did a 30 hour journey from Mazatlan (which we had thought was going to be 16) in a baking oven of a broken bus. The man next to me did a quick hail mary just as we were setting off, he obviously knew more than I did. I actually was wishing for the driver to crash into the wall at one stage, just so we could stop all the winding and rolling that never seemed to end. If channel 4 did a Top 100 Worst Bus Journeys countdown programme, i think youd have to stay up late to watch the bit about this one. Anyway, somewhere on that journey, we passed a time zone but didnt know it, so we missed our connecting bus today by an hour :( Here there are a million VW beetles acting as taxis, each of them the same blue and white, which add so much to the feel of it. Its a sight to see.

The plan is this- we bus south today for another 7 hours, which will take us to Peurto Escandido (bad spell), and will bike the 700km to guatemala. Ive got my yellow fever shot now, so its all go. By about the 8th of january we should be at the border, and then on the 20th of January ill have to leave everyone and turn back. Thats going to be sad withouta doubt, but i know ive got things to do and if i move the flight once more, ill be in the same situation again. Ho humm.. ill write more on that in a different one. But we musnt think aboiut the end. And i should be quiet about all this bussing around- what wimps!

Went to the cinema back up in Mazatlan, to watch Casino Royale (good film!). There was a Cricket in the cinema somewhere, which added a nice atmosphere to the quiet bits :) Ive bought some rubber clogs which the nasty canadians hate, but i like em.

Weve hot 3 big cities in a row, and its al quiet intense. Right, its nearly time to get back on the hell hound bus again. I feel terrible today, but am getting better. Its boxing day!