On the Island!

Well, internet is cheaper than we thought so I will update you on the adventures!

We actually haven´t been doing anything overly exciting the last few days. It rained up until Saturday night off and on. Friday we headed to La Ceiba, hoping to get in a few tours. Because of the rain, almost everything was cancelled. Chris wanted to go river rafting, and I want to head to an island for a day trip, we couldn´t do either of those things. (we hopefully will get those things done on the way back! as long as there is no rain!) So basically all we did Friday was make the 2-3 hour bus ride to La Ceiba, we found a hotel room in the rain and watched TBS all night! We actually thought it was an OK room, but we were mistaken. Chris killed about 12 cockroaches, while I FREAKED out. I was not a happy to be there. I wore a head-light and hunted them out while Chris killed them. Needless to say, i insisted we sleep with the light on so they wouldn´t come out. It must have worked cause I woke up about 100 times that night to check for them!

So, Saturday we tranferred rooms at my insistance! haha. we got a better place to stay in, and since it was still raining, we headed to the mall! My favorite place! There wasn´t much to look at, tonnes of shoe stores. Chris was excited about the food court. I can not believe how many fast food restaurants there were in La Ceiba. Pizza Hut. Wendys, Burger king, popeyes.....Its crazy.
After the mall, we headed to the bug museum. Met a family from Yorkton that bought a house in Honduras, with 3 kids I think. They are homeschooling them. Anyways, the bug museum was pretty cool, as you read before I held a tarantula, and a HUGE beetle. I laughed cause Chris didn´t want to hold them even though I was the one who was freaked out from the bugs the night before! The museum was run by a man from Ohio that moved to Honduras about 35 years ago. He taught school there, and he began collecting bugs. We were totally impressed with his displays. I had no idea there were that many kinds of beetles and butterflys.
After that we got a cab to the stadium to get out tickets for the soccer game. The taxi had a slight accident and ran into the door of another car. We paid him and walled away quickly! Good thing we were at the staduim already! We got our tickets. 80 Lempira for men, and 30 lempira for women and children! Try that at a Bomber game! (20 Lemp = $1.00) I picked up my laundry that I had dropped off in the morning and we had a quick supper before the game. I tell you, getting someone to do our laundry is the way to go. 10 lbs=60 Lempira. Cheap Cheap. I had not much choice, since my liquid laundry soap container broke in my bag on the flight here!
The soccer game, sorry, football, was good. The people were sure into it. It ended in no score, but it was good.
The next day(Sunday) we decided to take a bus to a town called Sambo creek. The book said it was a small village with some good restaurants. So we jumped to bus to get out of the city. It was about a 40 minute ride. Although, we ended up getting out of the bus too early and in some different little village. We still don´t know where we were. We stayed for lunch, and Chris will want to to mention the size of his shrimp. They were actually huge. I have never seen shrimp that size before. About the size of your pointer finger and thumb all rolled up tight!
We walked to catch the bus to get back to LaCeiba, and a mother and her 2 daughters and 2 granchildren from the retaurant drove by and offered us a ride in the back of the truck, so we jumped in, and go back to La Ceiba in about 10 minutes. WAAAAAAYYY faster than the chicken bus!
From there we caught the ferry to Ulita. I narrowly escaped motion sickness, it was a rocky ride and I wasn´t feeling too hot! It took about an hour. So that brings us to Utila. It is mainly a diving island, and lots and lots of tourists. I haven´t seen this many on this trip until now. More than locals I think. Its a different scene than the last week, as, everywhere else closed by 7 or 8, and if you didn´t eat supper, chances are you weren´t going to get anything. Here it seems like most things are open until about 10 to midnight. Today, we tried to find a boat heading to a smaller island, but they had all left for the day. We tried to go on a boat with some scientists that were studying and looking for dolphins, but that boat was full too. So, we walk to a beach we read about and I did some snorkeling. It was so cool. I saw some amazing fish. Some were huge, but they were blue and yellow, some purple, some white and yellow, black, orangle, all colors really. Yellow and green coral. A couple people snorkeling near me said they saw 2 stingrays. I´m glad I didn´t, I would have crapped my pants!
I can´t wait to go again tomorrow though.
Leanne, I should have listened to you though, my snorkel sucks! Its doing an OK job though-and tomorrow I will take a banana!
Anyways, its almost 8, I have to go get Chris from happy hour and go get some supper. I feel a but sunburned today, so maybe we´ll take it easy and head to bed early tonight!

Talk to you soon! Thanks for all the comments everyone!

DON´T FORGET TO WISH KRISTA A HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!!!!! March 4th!