Cascos

"Casco" is the Spanish word for "helmet." I've scoured Antigua looking for a decent one!

Until today, every helmet I saw was suuuuper sketchy. They're all really light and the vents are fake (which makes me wonder what else is fake) and unbelievably cheap. But today I found a shop that sells decent ones! They're roughly 100 USD and have real vents, decent heft, and really legit padding!

Unfortunately they didn't have any in my size ... so I've got to return next week and choose one out of the catalog. It should be here within two days of ordering it. But I don't know if those are days in the literal sense or Guatemalan days ... Things move at a little different pace here, I'm finding. I talked to a lady in a shop and she said they'd have some new stock in on Wednesday. A day later I returned and she said they'd be restocked next Saturday :)

Here's another example - when I bought my motorcycle, they said to come back the next day so we could go to some office and put in an application for my license plate. When I returned the next day, they told me to come back next week ... I think they just didn't feel like going over there with me - haha! They're not too worried about me getting a license plate, I guess.

Anyway, for the time being, I bought a helmet to hold me over for this weekend ... It was $12 ... That's right - twelve American dollars. Needless to say, I don't have a lot of faith in it's ability to protect my head. But I'll only be on the road for 4 hours this weekend, so ... you know.

That was a picture of Grace, Tony and Sarah's daughter, enjoying my helmet at dinner tonight! We ate at El Sol Latino. It was good! I ordered ratatouille with chicken ... and I'm pretty sure that what they served me was not ratatouille, but it was good! Haha! I didn't really expect to get anything very true to the French original in a Guatemalan restaurant :)

They had live music as well. They were surprisingly decent! I think their name was Sol Latino. The restaurant is named after them - or vice-versa.

Tomorrow Sondro and I head to the beach! Probably won't take my laptop, so I'll let you know if I make it back alive on Tuesday!