The colonial capital and current tourist city of Antigua was our Saturday trip destination.
The day began in the convent turned luxury hotel of Santo Domingo where the high school history teacher lead us around various museums such as the precolombian Art museum, the monastic art museum and a few craft work shops where they make candles, art and other goods.
Following that we went to the San Franciscan convent, a similar colonial building that had not seen the beautiful restorations of the hotel. Here we took some pictures, saw the nuns cells, kitchens and resting places.
Later in the day we saw a few Churches contrasting the ruined buildings of old to the rebuilt post earthquake churches that are still in use.
Antigua is a beautiful city and many of the churches were built with parks and monuments.
The day ended with a nice lunch overlooking the city. While we were dining one of the local active volcanos went off and covered the whole region with black ash. It was kind of exciting and kind of awful.
Part of you wanted to enjoy the experience, but another part needed to wipe the burning ash from your eyes and cough it out of your lungs.
When I returned to school two days later everything was blanketed with black and gray dust. Yuckers.
Anyway Antigua is beautiful. I shall return.
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