Slow afternoon turns into a henna tat

Yesterday afternoon was pretty calm behind the bar. A girl came in who travels around doing Henna tattoos at music festivals during the summers and then comes to Guatemala in the off season to do business here. As a sort of advertisement, and since it was slow, she offered to give Monyca and me free tattoos (Monyca was the assistant manager on duty). I didn't really have anything specific in mind that I wanted, but my friend Mike immediately put in with his hybrid English-Irish accent (he grew up in both countries):

"Get like an octopus or something, you know, just for fun!"

So it was settled, and an octopus went on my arm. Pretty neat.

Here are the Before/After - one perhaps an hour after she had put on the paste, and then one from today.