Well, we made it back to the boat Sunday night, with groceries, and all is well aboard Sound Effect. We met Becky and Denny from Kokomo for the last leg Sunday afternoon in San Salvador. We shared a cab, bought some groceries and made it back to the dock, where we begged a ride out to our boats. (We had stored our dingy aboard for security.)
It is hot here but not as hot as May because it rains daily to cool things off a bit. The downside is we cant leave the boat without closing it up for fear of rain.
The attached picture is one of floats, full sized mannequins of the stations of the cross. We found these "floats" parked in one of church ruins waiting for next year. They use thes in a procession during Semana Santos (Holy week)each year. Whereas, we in the US hardly get a day for Easter they usually take off the entire week but certainly Thursday thru Sunday of Easter week for family gatherings and church processions. The week in Antigua is world reknown and we would like to go back some day to spend the week. The city of Antigua is about 20,000 people today and there are 38 churches!! To be fair most of them are ruins but there are 12 still active parishes. You cant walk down any streeet in town without running into a church.
We are settling into a routine here, working on the boat and preparing for the next leg. We know we want to transit the canal in early September but beyond that we don't know for sure.