A Day at the Beach

Friday was a day at the beach for Hoops Sagrado.

After playing a couple of games at a school in Reu (game posts coming soon), we boarded Marisol for the 45 minute trip to Champerico, a small town on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala.

Unfortunately, it seems like the municipal government in the coastal area of Guatemala was taking lessons from D.C. (no offense to all of our friends who work for DDOT) because the potholes in the road to the beach were outrageous. Our normal 45 minute trip took about 90 minutes because you can't hit those suckers too hard...To say they are in need of a potholepalooza would be putting it mildly.

We finally got to the beach and it was clearly just what the doctor ordered for everyone. After more than two weeks of Spanish classes, hard work in the basketball camps, basketball games and just learning a new country, everyone needed the break and everyone seemed to have a really good time.

The group spent the afternoon eating seafood fresh from the ocean (literally brought in via the pier about half a mile down the beach) and playing in on the black-sand beaches and in the warm Pacific.

After a full day and with the sun setting, bonfires burning on the beach and lightening in the distance we packed up headed back to the cooler climate of Xela.