UPDATED!!!
There is a lot to tell about the last few days! It has been really hard to sit and upload the pics and update everyone because we have been so busy! I at least wanted to get the pictures up tonight. I am hoping to have wifi access tomorrow so i can better update about the events since we left Roatán. Enjoy the pictures!!
heading to karaoke our last night in Roatan
Enjoying Karaoke. The Mayan Princess has their own club right next door. It was pretty cool!
Playing Gin Rummy after karaoke 🙂
View from our porch 🙂
waiting to board the ferry back to La Ceiba
It was such a gorgeous day!
HUGE fire we passed on the drive back to Tegucigalpa
Coconut juice. Weird. Marco & his family loved it. Cost: $0.50
Roadside stand with a bajillion fruits and candies. And everything coconut.
Eating coconut "meat" - interesting...
We had a super long drive back to Tegucigalpa from La Ceiba. We were passing by the lake (Lake Yojoboa) around 10pm and needed to eat dinner. There was a little place called Las Marias #3 that we stopped to eat at. They had a huge freezer full of fish and we got to choose ours. These are tilapia from the lake. Probably the most delicious and fresh tasting tilapia I’ve ever had!
Fresh tilapia. Our dinner on the way back!
Delicious.
Once we got back (1am), we crashed. We were so sleepy and had travelled the entire day. The next morning, Marco, Maribel, and I went to this bakery about a block from Maribel’s house to get some breakfast. Every single bread I’ve had in Honduras is just amazing. Most are made to go with coffee. What more could this girl ask for??
Next morning. Yummy breakfast at a bakery (panederia) down the street.
Bread Heaven
Later that day we went to see Marco’s dad’s wood shop. He produces SUPER nice wood furniture, pictures, doors, etc. This stuff was seriously incredible.
Ornate, hand-carved woodwork at the wood shop. This is a door for a bathroom.
This particular door is all one piece.
Beautiful desk. Each little design detail was hand-cut and placed.
Wood shop worker prepping pieces.
Staining
Pigs! They were SO funny!
Marco’s dad has pigs and goats and dogs at the wood shop. The pigs were intended for Christmas dinner one year, but when it came down to it, he just couldn’t cook ’em and eat ’em. So now he has pigs! 🙂
Estrella (Star) and the goats were playing
The goats were intended to eat the grass so they wouldn’t have to worry about cutting. Now, those two goats eat everything else and poop all over the grass. HA! 😛
Part of the wood shop.
Marco's dad's office. These are pieces waiting for pick-up.
At dinner that night. Pretty.
The next day, we went to visit Tio Coki’s farm. This was a looong drive on very rough, mountainous roads. It took about an hour to get there. But when we arrived, it was so worth it.
Coki's farm. Incredible beauty.
Breathtaking
Coki grows beans, mainly. He has a few small crops of plantains, cilantro, broccoli, cucumbers, and things like that. But he definitely has the most beans. All the rows of green in these pictures, are beans.
Seriously. Awesome.
All Coki's farm
The rows that are yellow at the bottom of the picture are beans that are ready to be harvested. The plant fully matures, then dies, and rests for 3 days. After the 3 days, the beans must be harvested BY HAND. He has only had this farm for about 4 months. Can you imagine all the hard work that has been done?!
Mountains everywhere
Farm property tour
La Toscana. Coki's farm.
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