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Published: October 7th 2006
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Child's Play
On the floor of the bus station playing jacks. Given the that we had next Monday off of school due to a national celebration of some historical figure, Sarah and I decided to head to Tegucigalpa for a couple days to explore. And by explore, I mean explore the mall. It was huge. Its hard to even put it into words. Although....
I should probably start from the beginning. So, we set off Saturday morning to catch the bus from Comayagua (my new home) to Tegucigalpa (capital of Honduras). Upon arriving at the bus station, we attempted to buy tickets in the bus station. The man behind the counter told us no, no tickets. After a short discussion, we realized that he wasn't telling us they were sold out. There were just just no such things as tickets for this bus. You get on the bus and then a guy comes around and collects the money for the bus ride about 20 minutes after the bus leaves the station.
It was a beautiful ride to the capital and Sarah took lots of pictures along the way. The only thing that was less than perfect was the bus preachers, who boarded the bus, told us our souls were damned
Check Out the Canadian Flare
A bartender at TGI Friday's with his newly obtained Canadian flag pin. to hell and then asked for our money. Not the best sales pitch if you ask me but some of the Hondurans bought it. And I just pretended not to understand.
Once we arrived, we caught a taxi and asked the taxi driver to take downtown to a hotel near the mall. Okay, note to travelers, hotels downtown near the mall are not inexpensive. They start at about 150 dollars a night. So, we looked in Sarah's travel book and found one for about 40 dollars a night about a 10 minute taxi ride from downtown.
After 45 minutes in a taxi, we arrived at Hotel McArthur, which is very difficult to say with a spanish accent. However, if you don't say it like that, the taxi driver won't know where he is going. The hotel was gorgeous and Sarah and I each paid less than 20 dollars a night for a triple room, electricity, a pool, a balcony, hot water, filtered water in the room, and a wall fan!!! Living large.
We then headed for the mall. For whomever chooses to visit me, be forewarned. We will visit this glorious place. Here you can find neverending
Heaven on Earth
Shoe section in Carrion, a department like store in the mall. racks of shoes, A BOOK STORE, and cinnabons! Sarah and I ate giant cinnabons (see picture) and shopped and shopped and then met up with Kari to have dinner at TGI Fridays. Yes, you didn't misread it. I said TGI Fridays.
TGI Fridays was fantastic as well! They had to wear flare, just like in the states. Lucky for them, Sarah brought a handful of Canadian flag pins and added them to the bartenders and our server's vests. I do believe this was after our third long island ice tea served in a giant glass.
Kari decided to go back to her hotel after that, as she was planning to take a day trip the following day and Sarah and I headed back to the hotel to get ourselves prettied up to go out on the town. We had heard there was a Salsa club in Tegucigalpa, one of our main reasons for going aside from the shoes, books, and cinnabons. However, we didn't really trust where the taxi driver was taking us, so we opted to change directions and go to Bamboo, a club some friends had recommended to us.
It was quite the place. $5
cover but once you were in you could drink all that you wanted. We didn't take full advantage and left early because it was packed and we were unable to dance. Although this didn't stop people from trying to dance with us. Or from telling Sarah that they were in love with her.
We decided we loved snack food more than we loved them and headed across the street to a gas station to pick up some chips and chocolate, caught a taxi and headed for the hotel. This entire time, Sarah really really had to pee. Which she was doing well with until we arrived at the hotel to find the outer doors looked and realized we didn't have a key. Sarah was half way over the gate, when we realized the guard was on his way to open the door. He made it just in time 😊
The next day we work up and watched Sand Lot 2 in spanish and then headed to the mall. I forgot to mention that the previous day I spent a ridiculous amount of money on books and so I was unable to do much damage today. Although I did
Views from the Bus
Mountains around Tegucigalpa buy some things for my class including jacks. I don't know but they came in handy later.
So after a lunch of subway and quiznos, we headed back to the bus station where we bought tickets (imagine that) and waited for the next bus to arrive in an hour and a half. To keep ourselves entertained we decided to play jacks on the floor of the bus office. We also entertained most of the people walking by the bus office. At one point our ball bounced out the door and got ran over by a car. Luckily, Sarah did not as she was chasing it down (the ball, not the car).
The bus came and we loaded all our purchases on and it set off for home. A perfect end to an excellent trip with no preachers in sight.
(I am having difficulties uploading pictures onto this site. If you would like to see more pictures of the trip, you can visit Sarah's site www.travelblog.org/bloggers/swillett)
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Sarah Willett
definately a good time. Don't forget the man blowing kisses over his microphone though... lol.... too funny.