When my boss announced that it was time for me to take a vacation I grabbed my things and raced home faster than I ever had before. I had been dying to take a trip out of the country for months and I was so happy that the time had finally come. I went home, packed my bags and rushed to my best friends house knowing that she would leap at the opportunity to leave town with me. “I know exactly where we should go Trish!” She exclaimed. “Guatemala! It is such an amazing place I swear! I remember seeing a brochure a couple of weeks ago and I know you will love it!” I smiled at her shrugging my shoulders. For some reason I couldn’t stop thinking about Paris but honestly I was up for anything. We drove for two days non stop switching seats every time we got tired.

When we finally entered the city limits, my mouth flew wide open. It was truly incredible! We dropped our things off at our hotel nearby and we walked across the town to do a little sightseeing. We ended up completely falling in love with the city, it’s people and their culture. The smell of food was so strong that it was literally around each corner we turned. All of the houses were basically stacked on one another so it was hard to determine exactly where the smell was coming from. That didn’t keep us away however. We let our noses guide us around the village until I almost tripped on a little boy running by with his friends. He paused, looked up at me and Shelby, and pointed a scrawny little tree branch close to our faces, as he rambled furiously. We both looked at each other and giggled. “We were just trying to figure out what that amazing smell is. Thats all!” Shelby tried to assure him. He didn’t understand however. Instead he started talking even quicker than he had before, flinging his arms all over the place. I looked at him and put out my hands, waving it in front of him to try to get him to listen.

“Food” I said, making one hand like a bowl and the other like i was holding a spoon, eating cereal. “Mmmmm” I said rubbing my stomach. He raised an eyebrow before going “Aahhh.. Keis..” I didn’t know what he was saying. He made a tight fist and Swung it in a circle. He bounced the fist off of his head and into his stomach. I nodded my head and rubbed my stomach again. His friends laughed and guided us to a house nearby. Shelby and I stood in front of the door not knowing what to expect. The door flew open and the boys started babbling to a man inside. He let us in and started trying to speak to us. We shook our heads and giggled. I repeated the boys actions, throwing my hand into a ball before bouncing it off of my head and stomach. The man laughed and walked away from us. He returned with a jar of frog legs floating in a concoction of green juice. Shelby looked at me out of the corner of her eye and I knew that it was time to leave.