January 31, 2012

Guatemalan-style Treasure Hunt

Our girls like to have a Treasure Hunt as they ride along on our trips to Mexico to renew our visas every 3 months.   Each girl gets a sheet of paper with a list of things to find.  We have done many Treasure Hunts before when traveling in the United States, but our list in Guatemala has some interesting additions:

Adobe house
Animals crossing road
Another American
Baby on someone's back
Big bundle on someone's head
Car with loudspeakers blaring
Chicken bus (a used American school bus painted bright colors
    and zooming at high speeds)
House on the edge of a cliff
Man in intersection directing traffic
Man pushing ice cream cart
Man wearing mecapal (headstrap with huge load on his back)
Microbus (minivan crammed full of people, with lots of stuff piled on top, too)
Person carrying load of firewood on his or her back
Pickup truck full of people standing in back
Pila (deep sink made of concrete with 3 sections)
Stop sign (these are rare)
Stray dog
Tin roof
Tuk tuk (small taxi on 3 wheels for 3 passengers... or 8 Guatemalans)

See if you can find some of these where you live!  Happy Treasure Hunting!