First weekend in Antigua

Tim found us a couch surfing host for Saturday night between leaving Earth Lodge and moving in with our host family on Sunday. His name was Hector, and he grew up in Texas but moved to Antigua six years ago. He plays for an American football team, of which the there are a few in the country, surprisingly. We went out with him and a couple of his teammates to one of the bars that sponsors their team.

On Sunday we managed to figure out the bus to see his team, los Rhinos, play los Dragones, which was by far the most interesting sportball game I've ever watched, mostly because there were children and dogs running on and off the field the entire time, and several Guatemelan WAGs (wives and girlfriends for fans of the British show) were cheering "Let's go Rhinos" in accented English. Also, one of the players was a mid-50ish gringo who was taking things *very* seriously - yelling expletives, stalking the sidelines with headphones on before the game - and generally trying to intimidate his Guatemalan teammates into doing the same. #glorydays 

(P.S. For those of you trying to crack the case on Facebook, Tim wrote the first post with some light editing by me, but he hasn't figured out how to post from his own Blogger account yet, so he posts from mine. ;-))