I woke up at 4:30 because I was cold from the air conditioning. It was 64 degrees in there! I wanted to turn the AC off, but I didn’t know how. Amber woke up at 5:30 and I asked her to turn it off, which she did. After this, I slept until the alarm went off at 7. We got ready for the day and ate egg sandwiches with Tia Liliana. She has diabetes and is blind in one eye and only has 20% vision in the other. After breakfast, Vicky told us that we each had to pay $10 for gasoline for her to drive us to the beach. Gas was about $4 a gallon and we were only going an hour away, so I think that was a bit much, but we didn’t say anything. We went in a nice red car with cool AC. I sat in the back with Amber. We looked for the place where we could walk to the waterfalls that Lonely Planet suggested, but we had some trouble. Vicky asked several people, but they kept telling us that it was dangerous. It is interesting that there is such a spirit of fear in Honduras. People were constantly telling us that things were dangerous (bien peligroso), especially the buses because they stop every ten minutes and let on thieves. Vicky had never been on a public bus because she said they are too dangerous and expensive. She was surprised by how little we paid to get to San Pedro Sula. After driving down some gravel trails, we decided to head straight to the beach of Omoa. We looked for a beach, but it was not nice there because the water went straight up to the houses and shops. Vicky took us to another beach near Omoa that was better. We spread out on our towels. Amber and Lauren read and I thought. After a while, I walked up and down the beach. Vicky went to sit in the shade under a little roof and I went back to lie on the beach. We could hear music coming from a seafood restaurant on the beach. At 12:40, we went to the restaurant to get lunch. It was very expensive. Amber, Lauren, and I shared grilled chicken and some sort of seafood. I had a watermelon licuado. We were all really thirsty and finished our drinks before the food arrived. The meals also included beans with rice, tons of fried plantains, and salad. The plantains were similar to French fries, but they have more texture. We talked for a while and then Vicky suggested that we go to another beach that she knew about. We didn’t really care, so we headed off. When we arrived, it turned out that there was not a good beach. A man told us that the beach was dangerous and suggested we go back to the beach we had come from. We decided to return to San Pedro Sula so Vicky could nap. We arrived home at 3:30. We went swimming in the pool that Tio Victor had built so Liliana could do therapy in the pool. We showered and used the internet. Lauren and I put our laundry in the washer with the help of Lesli. We ate dinner with Tio Victor and Vicky. We had baleadas (flour tortillas with refried beans, cheese, and cream)… delicious! I ate two. Lauren had received a message from her cousin Allan with his telephone number. Lauren and Victor called him and Allan told us that he would come pick us up in ten minutes to spend time with his family. We quickly got ready and his driver picked us up and took us to a luxurious restaurant called El Portal. We were wearing casual clothes and when we arrived, we noticed that everyone was dressed up in suits and dresses. We met many of Lauren’s relatives (on her grandmother’s side). Allan ordered food and drinks for us, although we were quite full from dinner. Everything was very fancy. We talked with her family for more than two hours and her cousin Tato (Roberto) was going to return to La Ceiba the next day and told us that he could take us with him and we could stay in the beach house. We left the restaurant a little before ten. Allan paid another driver to take us back to our house. Their family has a lot of money. We assumed that Allan had told the driver where to take us, so we were surprised when the driver asked us how to get to our house. We didn’t have the address with us, but fortunately Lauren had Tio Victor’s number so the driver called him to ask for directions and we were very close to the house. We thanked Tio Victor and asked if he could take us to the gas station at 6:30 the next day to meet Tato. We felt bad asking him to cart us around, especially so early, but he was very gracious and assured us that he always gets up early anyway. We packed and went to bed at 12:45.
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