Well, our second day in to Honduras I wake up in a strange place. Not strange as in the changes one might imagine but have you ever spent months at home and then spent a weekend at a relative's house? When you wake up you imagine to see your same old ceiling and you being in the same old bed and suddenly... WOAH! Your not in your house! That's how I felt. I woke up to people (namely mom and Jennifer) making noise. I got up and took a shower that had water I swear straight from the mountains. It was cold man. After this I got ready to leave and took all the luggage to the lobby area and went to have breakfast. Breakfast for the morning was eggs, toast, like fried banana things, and beans. The beverage of the morning was coffee... I will never have coffee as long as I live again. I don't know what the big deal is about it. I will stick with my Mountain Dew thank you very much! Anyways, Luis took us to the bus station and we went our separate ways from there. Security at the bus station was not as bad as at O'Hare but it was pushing it. We got our tickets and waited for the bus. In the waiting room a movie was being played. It's the one about the robotic kid, David, who lives for like ever and was left in a woods with his teddy by his mom. Also in the movie is were they torture the robots in arenas. Ok a group thing here now... if you know what the movie is called (as I can honestly not remember the name) comment on it please. So the bus came and we boarded. Anaconda was playing on the bus. The bus smelled funky and I think that was a factor to the motion sickness I got on the bus. (no accidents though) We stopped about halfway through at an oasis type of thing and I walked off the motion sickness and found my land-legs (you know sea-legs? well I found my land-legs). We had lunch at a buffet and I know that the first thing I'm going to do when I get back to good ol' Wisconsin is going to get an American Burger. Doesn't matter from where but I'm going to get one. We waited for a bit to get back on the bus and that gave me some more time to work off the motion sickness. We got back on the bus and headed off (no movie this time) and again I got sick. So I took a nap and that made it go away. While I was napping my cousing Jennifer takes my camera (seeing as she wasted her camera's battery and starts using mine! I was not thrilled about that. But I was woken up just before we got to the bus station in Tegucigalpa (aka the capital of Honduras). There we got our baggage (dad mom almost lost the laptop briefcase... not the laptop though she took it out before the trip because it had to go under the bus) and waited for the hotel taxi driver to come get us. He did and I almost lost my carry-on because he couldn't close the trunk. Anyway the guy demanded a tip at the hotel and that was kind of interesting. Must've been for almost kissing my carry-on goodbye. So the taxi driver took off and we got our hotel key and went to our room. It was a double bedroom single (private) bathroom thing. It was like a Honduran hotel suite. So we trashed it... nah just kidding we got settled in and headed to the Central part of Tegucigalpa in a taxi. At the central area we looked for a battery cord so Jen would stop free-loading off mine and my batteries (gamers would use the term leeching :-) We couldn't find one and then looked for the next thing on the list... rechargeable batteries for my camera. I have regular spare batteries but I guess that's not good enough. We found some and I carried that around (keep that in mind as it comes into play later). Then we went to exchange US dollars for Honduran Lempieras and I called Compassion HQ so I could notify them about me being here. After this we went to a Mexican restaurant (MEXICAN not HONDURAN) and had a snack there before we went to this cyber cafe to type up blogs (for some certain adults with me it was to also check facebook). After this we went to a Argentinan restaurant where my mom's friend from the orphanage works. She was working on this particular night so my mom had to say hi. We got some food which by the way was better than the food in Miami and then had some dessert. Once we were done, we went home on the same taxi that took us there. The driver was nice and he drove us back to the hotel. We paid him and went into the hotel to our room. Now, remember way back up there when I said we bought some camera batteries? Well I don't know whose genius idea it was to make me hold on to them but let's just say that it was the taxi drivers tip... So after that we watched Gridiron Gang and went to sleep.
Answer to Previous Riddle: Few (if you ad e and r it becomes fewer)
Riddle of the Day: The old one runs forever, but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat, but a mighty roaring call.
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could this one be an alarm clock?
ReplyDeleteyeah...im agreeing on the alarm clock thing...good guess!!! :-) sounds like you are having an amazing trip!! is there anything that you dont have there that you miss??? (maybe your family? :-)
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ooh and i forgot!!! i have a riddle for you...
ReplyDeletewhat is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?? ponder that one!!! hehe
emmime
Is the answer to the yard/foot riddle...grass?
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