Bruno's Hotel & Marina will host a "different" sort of Happy Hour Saturday, Feb. 4 when Wilfer Martinez of Seniorales Crematorium will present a seminar on cremation.

Martinez will offer information on Guatemalan laws regarding cremation and also on prepayment plans offered by Seniorales Crematorium.

The seminar will begin at 4 p.m.

For more info, call Andy at 7930 5796.

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See the blue spot over the Western Caribbean corner, Belize-Guatemala. Blue = 800% above normal

Eugenio of Hacienda Tijax reports that in the past 7 days, rainfall has been 800% above normal. Read his Tijax Blog HERE .

Zory and Derek of s/v Celtic Dancer

And, bless her heart, she has accepted.

Nuptials will be Feb. 18 in Tampico, Mexico.

Derek and Zory's many friends on the Rio Dulce hope they will include a visit here on their honeymoon tour.

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Classical guitarist Anthony at Bruno's

Anthony plays an amazing selection of classical, flamenco and improvisational music.

There's no cover charge.

Happy Hour prices for the entire concert.

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A photographer was sent topside to document the event and was promptly expelled. Advertised as "excluyó a los hombres", the participants maintained strict adherence to this exclusion policy.

With one exception.

A female bartender was sent up to accept drink orders. She was sent back downstairs with instructions to send up the manager. With what appeared to be great reluctance (his request for a body guard having garnered no volunteers from those stranded at the bar), he headed upstairs, his head filled with trepidation.

Well founded, as it turned out. Just as Delilah deceived Samson, the poor manager was shorn of his locks!

Pam and Bill of s/v Songbird

If you haven't heard the music of this talented couple, you're in for a treat.

The Surf and Turf lunch special (grilled steak with robalo filets and shrimp) will be available throughout the concert.

For more info, call Roy at 4943-9132.

Tom, general contractor, assessing the progress with local carpenter Rosalio

Tom & Annie have been living and working on the rio for a year and a half or so, repairing sails and rigging. Visit their website HERE .

Last July, Annie returned from visiting her grandchildren in the states and was surprised to find that while she was gone Tom had done all her work -- stitching the sails that awaited her return.  Annie used her liberation from toiling at the sewing machine to pursue her long-time dream of sharing her passion for yoga.

Leading classes for friends and neighbors at homes around the village of Cayo Quemado (home of La Laguna marina formerly known as Texan Bay Marina) led her to start dreaming of a special space for yoga in the jungle. 

La Shala, three more levels of hojas to go

She decided to pursue some training in order to share her yoga, so she went to the Mystical Yoga Farm on Lago Atitlán for a 'grueling but exhilarating' three weeks of yoga teacher training.

While she was away, Tom started  building her a yoga studio, La Shala. Walter and Damion, heading up a crew of local guys, have created an inspiring post and beam studio with a bamboo and leaf roof.  It's a natural structure set in several acres of parks and gardens and surrounded by jungle.