Viva las tortugas!!

All Saint's Day is an official holiday in Guatemala, and we had the day off from school! Stephanie and I decided to get out of town and we headed back to the beaches of Monterrico to get some sun and free a sea turtle!



In Monterrico, there are some tortugarios, where they work on preserving the sea turtles and keeping them safe. On Saturday evenings you can participate in the liberacion de tortugas, where people purchase a sea turtle and release it into the ocean!



Getting ready for the race...


...getting our sea turtles! Okay, I'll admit...they looked like aliens. I didn't touch mine for almost 20 minutes until Stephanie made me.


And then we released them into the ocean!!