The Moo Truck

So as many of you have read, today we went to the lake in Chicobal just about an hour outside of Xela where we are staying. We took a really awesome bus ride up but then to get to the hiking point we had to take a truck up the rest of the way. Going up the truck lost traction and we had to get out and push, once it started back up everyone jumped on... we looked back to see Callie sprinting after the truck trying to jump on. After the lake hike we got back on the truck to get down the mountain. This whole time it had been lightly raining but after 4 hours the trail was slippery and muddy. So we jumped on and started down. The truck was sliding EVERYWHERE. I´m suprised it didn´t tip with just us. but as we were going we began picking up locals on the way. I believe the final count was 18 people on this little toyota pickup. We saw some locals who called the truck the moo truck because it had horns on it and a built in speaker system with wired cow sounds. The driver really enjoyed playing the various cow noises.We got down safe but the ride was so crazy that some of the locals who had jumped on, jumped off because it was getting so crazy!! when we got down i noticed that the suspension on the truck was held together with rope and the tires were smoother than paper... but hey were alive!!