Dave's BDay in Guatemala

Monday night is movie night. Many of us were craving pizza so we decided to order massive amounts of Domino's to have with the movie, the Motorcycle Diaries. I think it was the best Domino's pizza I've ever had. The movie was amazing with some of the landscape scenes flawlessly done. Tuesday was Dave's Birthday! But first, there was a two hour dance class in Meringue and Salsa. Umm I need to work on those... they're hard at first! But of course, extremely fun. For the birthday fiesta, I went to Xelapan and picked out a cake with a hilarious clown on it. Other people got candles and a gift for him and Brian made sure to get Spiderman plates and napkins =). A piñata was purchased, but we did not use it because we didn't have any candy for it. A huge group of us went to a bar and sang Happy Birthday and ate the cake while drinking Guatemalan beer (which, btw, Gallo is horrific but Maza is a little better... Gallo is made in the brewery which I live next to here... yes I live next to the brewery with the massive amount of barbed wire and armed guards). Anyway, Dave had the tables compete in a card game of high-low for most of the night before we headed back. On the way home, Dave lit his firecracker birthday presents with some of the guys before we all split up.
Dave and I live in the same direction, so he usually walks me home =) This time we didn't realize how far south we were heading and saw the cemetary in front of us. To avoid it, we turned north on the next possible street. Now I haven't mentioned this before, but in Xela, dogs are EVERYWHERE. They roam the streets in packs and are honestly on every corner. Well, on this street, we could hear a bunch of dogs barking like mad. We turned and a pack of 10 dogs were right in front of us. Usually the dogs will scram in front of people, but these... they were terrifying. They started barking more and approaching us with their hackles raised and frothing at the mouth. Both Dave and I just about paniced. However, we just tried to walk as quickly as possible away from the dogs without making them any more angry. We were fine, but it was not the best ending to the fiesta.
Wednesday I started to feel a touch sick. I haven't gotten sick here yet, but I know it's inevitable. I stayed in all night just in case, but I was fine... at least I got some good reading done =)