In Tegucigalpa

I got up at 5am to blog this morning since the wireless was working. I showered and began blogging before waking up Jen & Andrés. Blanca served us coffee, eggs, whole grain bread, beans and fried plantains for breakfast. She also set out a Honduran cream (or "crema" as we call it in our house) for us to put on the beans and eggs for flavor. Jen said she normally doesn´t care for beans, but the crema made it really good!

Luis drove us to the bus station at 7:30. We had issues once again with our carry-ons. Mine & Andrés´ were too large, so had to go underneath the bus with the checked baggage. Once we were checked in, all went well. The movie playing on the bus (it was a coach bus) was Anaconda. Jen says she´s been meaning to rent that one for the past month becase she´s only seen bits ´n´pieces of the movie...she slept through most of it this time too!

We stopped 1/2 way at a restaurant and store in a small pueblo called Sigatepec. When we got off the bus, Andrés said he didn´t feel very good (car sickness). We went to the bathroom and walked around a bit, and he got really hungry. Since the restaurant had a buffet, we sat down for a meal ($8 filled up the 3 of us!) Of course, when we got back on the bus...Andrés got sick again about 20 minutes into the ride. I never thought to bring dramamine, although Julie would probably strongly recommend it for Andrés when riding on a bus in the mountains in a 3rd world country (ask her about it sometime).

When we got to the bus staion, we got a taxi driver (who I was extremely disappointed in) to take us to the hotel. We checked in to the hotel and then took off for downtown to find a camera cord to charge Jen´s camera, some dramamine for Andrés and a cell phone for us to call home should we need it. Cheap cell phones cost $20-30USD down here and it costs about 5 cents per minute to call to the United States. I figured it would be worth it in an emergency. Unfortunately we got everything we set out for, except the camera cord.

Since the wireless didn´t work at the hotel, we grabbed a bite at a Mexican (yes, MEXICAN) restaurant before going to a ciber-café to pay $1 for an hour of internet access. Jen & Andrés needed to get their blog up. Then we headed to Café Milonga, a small Argentinan restaurant where Karlita works. For those of you who read this blog last year, Karlita was the girl who broke her arm and rode 2 hours on the chicken bus on mostly dirt roads to get to the hospital to have it set in a cast. She was the one who used Linda´s sling and whose "dorm children" I helped shower and put to bed each night. The expression on her face when she saw me was priceless! I wish we had a camera to get a picture of the two of us, but Jen used Andrés´so much, his batteries were dead too!

Andrés did buy rechargeable batteries in the "centro" but when we got back to the hotel, he realized that he left them in the taxi. We watched a movie and called it a night.