Island Time

After 3 weeks in the orphanage, a visit from my sister could not have come at a better time.  Which means, time to check out the country and island life!  Our first destination was to the little town of Copan.  Copan is only 5 miles away from the border of Guatemala...so obviously we decided we wanted to take a nice lil jog 2 the border.  However, considering we were told that the road leading up to it was part of the drug cartel, we decided against it.  We decided to check out the Copan Ruinas instead....don't worry.  :)
Tiffany of course, being the little sweet talker that she is, somehow snagged us a tour guide for free.  Normally a guide would cost $25 per group....since there were only two of us and the other groups didn't even seem to be speaking English or Spanish....we decided to just go tour the ruins on r own.  Long story short, we kindly stole another group's guide after they had begun their tour.  It all happened so fast, it's kind of a blur now.  :)

Us at the top celebrating r climb AND free guide :)

Our friends in Copan from the States and El Salvador

It was hard to leave Copan after only a few days because we met some pretty awesome people.  But after 2 buses, a ferry, 2 taxis, and 13 hours later, we finally arrive on the island of Roatan in the Bay of Islands.  The journey was most definitely worth it though bcuz this island was freaking beautiful.

One of the first days we were there, Tiffany found a huge deck that she could dive off.   Of course she was doing crazy dives, flips, handstands and all that jazz...I on the other hand didn't look so cool with just a plain jump.  But to each their own, right? On r water taxi ride back to r beach, the guys decided to let us fish.....for free!  I think they were sick of asking us if we wanted to pay for a fishing excursion, and us always rejecting, so they decided to just let us fish anyways.  Unfortunately we didn't catch anything...we had a few bites that we may or may not have lost for the guys...but still, it wuz pretty sweet considering we were in the middle of the ocean during an awesome sunset.  Lucky us :)

Pretty sure our friend here was quite nervous

Our fishing poles that were 2 big 4 our bodies

 

The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, one of the world's largest reef systems, lies right here off the coast of Honduras.  We were able to do a ton of snorkeling and it wuz pretty darn cool. We also took out some kayaks to check out the sunset from out on the ocean.   An added bonus, the kayaks had glass bottoms....so needless to say, it wuz a pretty sweet night.

Tiffany with our friend Christian

Some more of our friends from the island

 
     Coming back 2 the orphanage felt great after being gone for awhile.  To sum up our time with the kids while Tiff was here...it was great, chaotic, hectic, and awesome to have someone else to talk English with.

We helped to make tortillas for dinner one night...not saying we were good at it, and the girls were able to do about 4 tortillas to our 1...but still, we helped.  :)

Teaching English here is a pretty much enter at ur own risk activity.  One minute the kids can be all for it and super excited...and the next minute you turn around and they're gone...along with your water bottle.  One of the first nights Tiff was here she managed to keep their attention for quite awhile.  I'm guessing it was because of the great classroom and materials she had.

Teacher Tiff

One of the last nights, Tiff brought out her materials to make friendship bracelets.  Not thinking much of it, we had NO CLUE how absolutely crazy these kids were about to get.  It was definitely an adventure to try and help 20 of them all at the same time make a bracelet.  And even harder bcuz I had never even made one myself. :)

While I'm holding 2 bracelets for the kids, please note kid in the green....Yeh we're not sure either :)

After an awesome time, Tiff gets a pretty amazing goodbye from all the kids. :)

Find Waldo....I mean Tiff

Hasta Luego!!!!