Lago de Atitlan

Hello All!
This is going to be a short post, but stay tuned because I might get another post off in a few days!
We are currently in the City of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, its a hard name to say so most people call it by its Mayan name, Xela (shay-la). Much easier! Last few days we were situated on Lago de Atitlan. Basically this is a huge, cool, fairly clear lake that was formed in a crater of number of surrounding volcanoes. If you have seen Crater Lake think of this times about 10? Its pretty massive in terms of size and its pretty spectacular to look up and be surrounded by big peaks, volcanoes and Indian nose and shores speckled by villages surrounded by corn and coffee fields. This place is pretty amazing to be and it would have been easy to get stuck here, enjoying the views from the volcanoes, swimming in the cold yet refreshing lake, entertaining an afternoon wandering town or simply sitting on a roof top taking it all in.
We met some interesting characters in the hostel we were staying in (San Fransisco). One was an older gentleman who had been here many time and usually stayed for a number of months, had been to Cambodia and all over the world. Plays the horses on his free time and works on making his room more comfortable. He thinks he might buy a stove to put up in his room so he doesnt have to deal with all the people stealing and using the plates and dishes that he buys. Another older man is an old Carnival man, who´s job was guessing occupations, he must have been off his game because he was waaaay wrong with both of our occupations (computers guys i think he guessed?) Anyway there were some funny one liners that that old man said that I will not repeat here because they are not appropriate for all audiences, needless to say they left me laughing and scratching my head.
Apart from meeting people we did get up one morning, very early and climb up the nearest volcano, San Pedro (the name of the city too!) And reached the summit at about 830am! What a spectacular view but damn did my quads and calves pay for it. The hike up the mountain was literally straight up the dang thing, there were switchbacks but they were just for show, think of it as about 5km of stairs (I could be shorting the distance too) and these stairs dont really let up the whole time. But what a work out! And we could see some of the peaks that we were surrounded by in Antigua, as well as some of the peaks that we are hopefully about to summit near Xela!
Anyway we wanted to do more but decided to move on instead. The chicken bus ride out of the crater was spectacular too, such views and also taking a bus around road switchbacks that werent very wide is pretty amazing. A few times we had to stop mid turn, back up and go forward again to make the turn, pretty cool. Constant blurping of the horn too, blasting around tight corners not wanting to loose speed for the hill!
All for now, love you all!