Early Saturday morning (after a late night at our school's swanky staff Christmas party), we met our hired driver and our 12 seater minibus to head out for Nicaragua. The trip there was relatively easy (took about 5-6 hours total including travel, border, and lunch) other than the border stop. SUCH drama to get over from Honduras to Nicaragua. First we had to pay a fee to exit Honduras but were told that the stamps in our passports were really good enough to let us go. Apparently the extension that the school got for us, while working on our residency cards, is only good to stay in Honduras - NOT to travel out of it. The guy said he would grant us this passing because he knew we were going to a wedding (a lot of
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