Day 5: Sick in Antigua

     We woke up around 9:30. Late for us, but we were up late and just needed to pack up our things to check out of Jungle Party before noon. We wanted to find a different hostel for tonight. So we asked around and found a hostel called La Quinta. For the same price as a dorm at Jungle Party, they would give us a private room with a private bathroom. Plus, they had a kitchen we could use. We told them we’d probably stay three nights and they gave us a key. We went back to Jungle Party, got our things, checked out, and headed back to La Quinta. But not before I ran into Alex. He told me that things got a little crazy after we left but in the end, no one was hurt and it worked out fine. It also turns out that the crashing I heard was a fight of some sort happening in the hostel. No one knew exactly what had happened but one of the doors to the bathroom stall was missing. So we headed to La Quinta. We settled in and that’s where we stayed almost the entire day. Austin was feeling very sick. He had come down with a case of traveler’s diarrhea, presumably from that spaghetti, as it was the only meal we hadn’t shared. I wasn’t feeling too hot either so we lay in bed, eventually making it across the street to the grocery store for some sprite, chex mix, shampoo and body wash. The soap that we had, apparently sometime during our trip from Jungle Party to La Quinta leaked all over the “Shower Stuff” bag. It even leaked out of my bag and into my pack and on my clothes and everything else. I emptied it with plans to clean it tomorrow and went to bed early, hoping to feel better in the morning.