birthday bust

so i´m back in guatemala. more about that later. first thing´s first. saturday was noel´s 25th birthday so he decided to throw himself a bowling party at the boliches of tikal futura saturday afternoon. honestly i wasn´t really all that excited about going. i had just gotten back from new york tuesday evening to find out that flavio, my boss, would be paying me an all-day visit the following day. i was exhausted and tired of traveling but hey, it´s bowling. i decided to leave friday in order to get some business down in the pc office. unfortunatley the bus i took ran out of gas on the highway. i waited in the bus 2 hours, but ultimately had to catch another bus because it still wouldn´t start after they added fuel. so i arrive to the capital late, the office is already closed and it takes me forever to get to antigua due to rush hour traffic. when we tried to go out to some of our favorite bars and resteraunts in antigua, we found them closed. strange for a friday nite in the middle of the busy season. i went to bed early that nite upset. anyway saturday morning we get up and go to breakfast. in the park noel spots karen, the crazy woman who heads hearts in motion, that horrible charity we did the hornada for last fall. we hide. then we went bowling. it was a ropa party so we all dressed in ridiculous outfits and got on the bus. bob, ryan, noel, and i were in the second to last row. then a really drunk guy got on the bus and looked like trouble. he kept spitting on ryan´s seat and was trying to start something with bob. i didn´t see what happened next, but appearently he tried to rip some lady´s bracelets off her arm, failed, and then escaped out the emergency exit, running into oncoming traffic and getting hit by a car. i only heard the brakes screech and then the guy laying on the pavement. i don´t think he was killed. of course our bus drove on. we got to the bowling alley. i think it´s under new management because there is no longer beer and donut sales. so we decide to go to the grocery store to make our own drinks. bob, noel, and dave go into the restroom to mix them. a security guard walked in and asked what they were doing. he was furious. it turns out he thought that they went into the bathroom to have sex, more of a problem in the 2nd floor bathrooms but it happens on the first floor as well. meanwhile bob is wearing a mesh shirt and noel looks equally ridiculous. the security guards were going to call the police and didn´t believe noel and bob`s denials. finally i guess they let them go. that kind of put a damper on the bowling. then we left and went back to antigua. turns out a lot of the bars and resteraunts are closed because the police are cracking down on unlicensed serving. apperently someone got shot outside a club a little while ago. so we ended up going to the karioke bar. it was fun, but when we went to leave at 1, alexa realized someone had stolen her bag with her phone, wallet, and mirna´s digital camera. so we went to the police station to file a report. they asked alexa why didnt she come back later, like monday to do it and that she couldn´t file a report anyway because she´d been drinking (even though her last drink was at the bowling alley 12 hours earlier). she insisted and finally they helped her. dave asked if they could use the bathroom. the police said it was out of service and he should pee in the street. dave asked if that wasn´t illegal. the cop said there wasn´t anyone around so it was okay. so the nite ended. sunday we went to breakfast and noel and i headed out the oriente a little later than i would have liked. he got off in catocha and i continued on to ipala. but the bus stopped in agua blanca and said i had to get off and wait for the next bus. the agua blanca terminal is not the place you want to be hanging out sunday nite 6:30. a guy started talking to me about he´d left his car in jutiapa because he drank so much he was falling down. awesome. to the bus pulled up and i finally got home around 7. then noel and i had a heated discussion on the phone and i´m not so sure we´re going to be friends anymore. it was an awesome weekend. it´s good to be back.