Sirina Got Attacked by a Snake Today

So, turns out because we are taking pictures in RAW (google it) we are unable to see what photos we have taken at this fine internet establishment and cannot upload them for you folks to see.

HOWEVER, we can tell you that while at the Ruins of Copan in Honduras today Sirina was walking down a path behind me when she screamed and put me in the path of danger. Turns out a large constrictor type snake was sunning itself in the grass beside the path and Sirina disturbed its rest. It was coiled and it had it head lifted and was hissing very loudly and angrily at Sirina. I then told her to take a picture (which she did) and the snake retreated to the safety of the jungle. I thought it was a neat experience but she keeps saying she is going to have nightmares.

Anyway until next time.

-Shaun

Okay folks, he does not adequately capture the fear one feels when confronted with a large hissing constrictor. Yes I screamed and yes I used him as a human shield to protect me from the snake but like any photographer worth their salt, I did take a picture of it, and a pretty damned good one at that. But seriously, that was an instinctual reaction. I didn´t even conciously register what it was I was getting away from until after I had used Shaun as a shield.

We´re headed to Roatan tomorrow, where we will spend 2 full days. We will make time to write some longer posts about the CoED trip (even if there are no pictures) but suffice to say that it was a life changing experience that ended with us crying with a 14 year old Guatemalan student in a pizza joint in Antigua, Guatemala.

That´s all for now!

Sirina

We are in Guatemala

Using the fine Central American internet we are updating this webblog before driving to Lake Atitlan. We met the co-ed group yesterday and they seem like a fine bunch of people. I´m going to be brief as we have a limited amount of internets but I´m having quite a bit of fun here and I´m very happy the words "I trust you implicitly" came out of my mouth one day in July.

-Shaun

It´s Sirina. Guatemala is a very neat place. Yesterday we went with the group to La Labor School on the outskirts of the city to see the school where Co-ed had its first textbook program. The impact has been amazing. We spent some time with the kids, reading (them in English, us in Spanish) and watching their mini-soccer tournament. Today we are off to Santiago and Panajachel on Lake Atitlan. All in all, lots of fun. Pictures when we have more internets.

Sirina

P.S. I already have a funny shaped sunburn.

It is 2:48 AM

We are just getting ready to leave.  Doing the last few chores to save the house from developing a funk while we are gone and saying good-bye to hot showers and dry skin.

Here we go!

Almost Time

Goto http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaunmcgregor/5342276096/ to
see which money belongs to which country.

We are leaving on Monday the 21st of February.  I'm just getting this setup now, but hopefully  while in Central America I'll be able to upload photos and do some blogging.

If you are wondering where I'm going check this and this out.

Also pictured above is some of the money we are taking goto http://www.shaunmcgregor.ca to see my Flickr feed where all the photos will be posted.

-Shaun

Home...

We are home. At last.

It was a long flight, we left Tokyo at 4 p.m. on Friday and landed in Edmonton at 3 p.m. on Friday. How's that for time travel?

We have both been awake for more than 24 hours at this point, not having gotten any sleep during the flights and now must force ourselves to stay awake for another 4 to 5 hours to minimize the 16 hour jet-lag that will hit us.

Now that we have fast internet we will post all the stuff we missed while in Japan. Maybe it will be Shaun's project to keep him awake.

Day 16

But first...

This is a video we took way back when we were in Takayama.

Today

We went to Tama Zoo a little outside of Tokyo. We spent the better part of the afternoon there and that is all we basically did today.


This zoo was very large and had quite a few animals. The most interesting was the Chimpanzees. These little guys had a cool system for getting fruit which involved them using sticks as tools. I had figured I had seen everything zoos had to offer until I saw the chimps using a vending machine...

We are going to Osaka tomorrow and again may not be able to post pictures or video we will be there for 3 days. Then our last night will be back in Tokyo and after that you will all have to endure us being in Edmonton again.

Talk to you soon.

-Shaun

Pictures, Pictures...

...and more pictures

So I uploaded a bunch of pictures to flickr (link on the left) and I will now go about adding some pictures to the previous posts.

If I really feel crazy I spend ￥400 more and upload a few videos.

Make sure you take a look I went to a lot of trouble for you... ;)

-Shaun