Monday, June 13, 2011

Back in the US

The last weeks of school were a little harried, so now that we're on vacation in the US for a couple of months, it's time to get caught up on our blog. We finally figured out that we spend as much on coffee and licuados in order to use internet at a cafe as we would if we had it at home, so we're going to have internet at our house next year. Apparently, we can get devices that plug into the USB port and we can buy minutes (or bytes) similarly to how we buy minutes for our phone. This will make it a lot easier for us to just get on the computer and type away.

Our last day in Honduras was spent in Honduras' 2nd largest city of San Pedro Sula. I could not believe it could get any hotter than it was in Copan Ruinas, but SPS was hotter. We had errands to "run", so we filled up our water bottle and walked very slowly. We visited the bank, only to be told that they couldn't do currency exchanges on Saturdays and to come back Monday (our flight was on Sunday), went to the mall (very expensive), went to a touristy shopping area, followed sightings of a large church to a town center and some sort of music event, and did a bit of random wandering around. Back at the Dos Molinos B&B, I had a serious debate about whether or not to turn on the hot water (if there was any). Surprisingly, "no" was the easy winner and I enjoyed some cool off time in the coldish shower.

We flew into Portland to gray skies and cool weather. Is there no happy medium?