Day 2 -- Our first full day

Dia Numero Dos

Waking up to roosters crowing whose inner time clocks seemed to have missed the whole 'daylight savings' deal was the start to quite an eventful day. The children made us a lovely pancake breakfast which was well equipped with personal syrup bottles to top it off. Many of us were woken up, however despite the many cups of coffee (Rick Betteridge taking in a grand total of six), with our first shower experience. Needless to say, there wasn't much water wasted due to the extremely cold temperature. After getting cleaned and digesting our food we were able to travel to the Honduran farmers market. Here we ran into a bunch of uncommonly seen objects; for Matt Bretzke it was the very low strung ceiling tarps, and for the rest it was the massive pile of fresh raw meat and babies laying in the merchandise on the table. We were also greeted with head turns and stares, being the epitome of U.S. Tourists. Back to the foundation we went after having stopped at the local grocery store to pick up beverages. We got to play with the kids outside and bond with them before heading out on a very dangerous (for us) journey to the river. Talk about 19 people in the back of a pick up, 25 in total, going through pot holes and up mountain sides. Now add speeds reaching up to 60 mph and you get a bunch of Americans holding on for dear life for about 40 minutes. Once we reached the river the children that joined us eagerly stripped down to their bathing suits and jumped in. Meanwhile the engineers in the group decided to reform the river with rocks to make it easier to cross. Relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery wrapped up another wonderful time with the children. Then it was back on the road and to the foundation for some rest and grub. They accommodated our American ways with some grilled cheese and what tasted like liquid banana laffy taffy soda. We mapped out our next day here in Honduras, aka the start of VBS, and sang songs with the kids before they went to bed. Capping out our night on the roof, tomorrow comes another eventful day!