Happy Easter, all!

Some people love it, some people hate it, but you'd be silly to miss it! That's how Lonely Planet describes Antigua, and I belong to the former group of people. We came here yesterday and was met by the biggest crowd of people I so far have seen in Guatemala. There are loads of locals, Guatemalan and international tourists here, and today, Good Friday is the most spectacular day of the year. We went out last night, and in good faith and wanting to make a good documentary for our information work we "had" to stay up til 3am when the first of many parades started infront of a massive church next to our hotel. It was just surreal, Guatemalan cities usually die out after 8pm, and now the square was packed with people and Roman soldiers on horses imitating Jesus's last hours and days. There was a parade this morning at 6am, which we accidently missed, but they've continued all throughout the day and with some amazing flower and sand paintings on the streets. People spend hours and hours on making them, only to see them being wiped out in two seconds as people tramp all over them. Well, well...it's been really good regardless, and although this is appaerantly Guatemala's gringo town number one and Maya Disneyland, it's been really cool to see, and really get to be a tourist (not something that happens on the finca). On that different note, it's back to the plantation again on Monday, and not long til we come back to Norway now. Wow, it has gone quickly, but oh, what fun!

Happy Easter to you all and hope you'll get loads of easter chocolate. I've realized I'm about a kilo and a half away from my normal chocolate consumption during this week of the year, but all good, all good! Tata!