More Hondo!

I promised to post pictures of the rest of our vacation so here it is. But first I have a picture of our sweet, grown-up boy. Grandma Draper, Grandma Bramhall, Aunt Amy, and others helped watched him while we were gone. I hear that he was an angel but maybe they are hiding the truth. We missed him very much and are happy to spend every minute with him.

We headed out to Utila, an island off of Honduras, to enjoy beach life and to do a little snorkeling. The first day in Utila was not the most pleasant day, it was extremely hot and our hotel room was worse than being outside. Luckily they did have window air conditioning units that we quickly turned on and our rooms were a decent temperature by bedtime. Early the next morning we had George take us to our own private island - Sandy Cay.

We stayed here for two days and it was the most wonderful, relaxing part of the trip. It is just wonderful to be by ourselves to enjoy nature. The island was surrounded by reef and we did a lot of snorkeling. Dave and Tyler went at least 3 times a day for an hour each time. The last time snorkeling on the second day Dave and Tyler say a Sting Ray and I joined them before we saw a shark. Yes it was very scary to me. I wasn't so sure I wanted to be in the water anymore. Luckily it was a small shark and probably was scared to death of us. Tyler found an awesome star fish but it was still alive so we had to leave it. The sunsets were absolutely amazing, I have never seen something so beautiful. And the boys worked very hard on knocking a coconut out of the tree, ripping of the soft outside shell, and then finally cracking the nut to get out coconut milk.

Then the rest of the pictures are just of different parts of Honduras that we loved! First picture is of a truck with approximately 30 men in it drive down the highway and 60 mph - very stupid!

The second picture is of the awesome small trucks that are just my size.

Our last night in Honduras we searched out a place to eat Baliadas. Tyler and Mindy ordered the Super Baliadas. Believe it or not, Tyler ate the whole thing. Baliadas are mainly torillas, beans and eggs. The second picture is of a LDS church, all the churches are gated like this for protection. The last picture is a typical home in Honduras with clothes on the line. If you look to the right of the yellow cloth you will see a house, a very small house that someone was in we saw them peek out at us. Could you even imagine?

That is the end of the pictures I will post. Once again, I will say it was a wonderful experience and I hope to one day visit Dave's mission area in Brazil. He said Honduras brought back a lot of memories. Someday, Honey, we will go.