Day trip

I'm sorry that I havent been posting as much as I used to.  I'm having a hard time motivating on the blog since I am settling into normal life which doesnt really seem that exciting for blogging.  Last week was pretty busy for me between the apartment getting fumigated which made me then have to clean every single thing to get the poison out, to a day in San Pedro, to a day where the computer broke and I spent all morning fixing it and blah blah blah.

Yesterday, we had a big day.  Rob and I took our first big day trip.  Rob's work truck isnt in great shape so we arent allowed to take it too far away but recently, our friend got a 2nd vehicle and told us that we can use his old truck if we want to go somewhere.  I've been wanting a rocking chair and we were told that we could get some nice chairs in a town called Comayagua.  I'd been wanting to go there anyway since I'd heard it is a nice colonial town with a really nice central park and very old church.  The drive was probably the most interesting part of the day.

Not too long into our drive, we had to stop for a herd of cows to cross the road.  Another interesting thing was the truck full of pineapple peels...I cant imagine what they are planning to do with them.

Another thing I noticed (please disregard the dirty windshield) is that Hondurans have no idea what the yellow line means.  They are very happy to pass into oncoming traffic over that pesky yellow line.  I found it very nerve racking.

Comayagua did have a very nice church but the town was so HOT.  Mostly we enjoyed some Burger King and air conditioning, before heading to Siguatepeque which was on the way to Comayagua and where we actually saw them selling rocking chairs.

The whole drive, we drove by people selling things on the street.  What is interesting is that you will have 30 people selling the same thing in 1 stretch of road, and then 30 people selling different, but the same as each other, things in the next stretch.  One area, everyone had bottles of honey for sale.  Of course, we had to stop and buy a bottle that had some nice looking honey complete with the honeycomb.  Further down it was this awful, gaudy pained pottery for the garden....giant white swans, pink flamingos, frogs playing the banjo...they had everything but nothing that I would actually display at my house.  Further down was the hammock section where I bought a hammock chair, which is something else that I have really been wanting.  Once Rob hangs it, I will have a nice place to sit outside on our patio.  Finally, we got back to the rocking chairs and found a nice comfortable one that I'm sure I will spend a lot of time in come July.