Returning slowly

We made it back from Copan. Edwin and his daughter Hannah came to visit and for the last week we have traveled around Honduras. It was great!

We will post some things of that trip.

Some highlights include:
Free-flying scarlet macaws--that was amazing!
18 Rabbit or dieciocho Conejo
the Mayan ball court
the cool mayan king names, like shell smoke and the Jaguar King
A tigger sculpture (stand by for the pictures of that one!)

School ended and Jack is a Renaissance Man
Tunnels carved underneath the main top part of the pyramids

Liquados at Comedor y Pupusaria Mary (licuados are water or milk shakes made with fresh fruit and ice). A comedor is an 'eatery' and a pupusaria is a 'pupusa store'.

Making it safely through 4 police checkpoints and navigating 7 hours across the Honduran countryside and getting lost (a little) in San Pedro Sula.

Ranae, Stuart, Calla and Abraham all got sick--some upper respiratory disease and a fever and rash.

Oropendula birds and nests.

We thought we'd save some money and not get a guide but we decided to get a guide (Armando) and it was great and the whole place really made sense after that!

Henry's 11th Birthday celebration with Grandma Waisath's famous chocolate-coconut cookies and his hour-long ride on a zipline through the "rainforest" (technically, secondary or tertiary forest)

Giant cedar (Cedro or Cedrela species), ficus, and Ceiba trees growing in the Mayan Copan Plaza and also on the Pyramids.

Riding 14 hours in the car, sometimes with out seatbelts!

Buying a giant banana cluster for $1.50 and eating it for 3 days.
Buying freshly picked pinas and then eating the sweetest, best tasting pineapples later on.

We saw a group of men plowing with 2 oxen and then planting beans or corn right behind the plow.

Good conversation with Edwin.

Watching Soccer (Honduras vs. Canada and Brazil vs. Argentina) in the hotel in the qualifiers for the Copa Mundial

Swimming in the hotel pool that had a nice shallow end.

Learning about the rain god Chak (or Jack as it sounded to us) who rains by sending water out his nose. That was a huge hit with one of our party. Maybe it will become his mascot from now on!

And more things we can't think of right now.

We are happy to be back into the groove, a little bit and looking forward to the next 54 days we have left!