Life is All Kinds of Beautiful: Honduras Style

Another break, another trip.

I just love traveling and seeing God’s world.

Kiley and I took off bright and early on Saturday morning for Santa Rosa, where we met up with some of the La Union girls. From there we got onto our next bus to head to La Entrada. It was about an hour chicken bus ride through the beautiful mountains. We made it to La Entrada and had to wait there for nearly an hour before the bus for Copan would leave because they needed more people on the bus. Well, in Honduras they don’t care how long you wait, just as long as the buss is packed to its max before departing. In a little 8-10 foot bench we squeezed at least 5 people plus the mothers with their babies into each row. I couldn’t help but laugh at how we looked so crammed into a small spot.

We finally arrived to Copan and first found the hostel we were going to be staying at, the Blue Iguana. It was a very nice hostel, and even had hot water!

Side story: Our one shower has only ice cold water now, so we have all been sharing the other shower with warm water. The other night I was waiting for our water to come back on so I could take a shower. Kiley and I were by the shower and watched it come slowly out the spout. Well a few seconds later it started making a loud noise and then misting everywhere and then POOF it completely caught on fire for a second and then there was just smoke everywhere. Needless to say, that shower is now broke. So, we called our landlord to tell her the problem. The next day at school one of the secretaries (who also rents from our landlord) told us the landlord came to her house last night complaining about all of our complaints and that if we don’t stop complaining and making her pay/fix things she will have to find other people to rent the house. Wonderful! So, the point of this story: I was excited for the hot water at the hostel..and I am glad I enjoyed it since I got home today and we still don’t have a warm shower!

Back to Copan:
The first day/night we just enjoyed the new town and the fun shops, exploring all around. The next day we headed to Welches coffee shop for breakfast and then off to the Mayan Ruins we went! On our walk to the ruins, we met Mina, who is from Germany. She hung out with us for the day, and she was a really awesome person! She’s been traveling through Central America for the past six months, and only had a few more days in Honduras. The ruins were very beautiful, and there was a lot to see. Hopefully the pictures give you an idea of how neat this place was! After the ruins we went shopping a bit more around town, and then later that night we went out with some friends we made at the hostel for dinner. I absolutely love staying in hostels. It’s much cheaper than hotels, but more importantly you get the opportunity to meet some really awesome people! So we enjoyed the evening with the group and then called it a night a bit earlier, since we had to be up at 4am to walk to the bus station and catch the 5am bus!