Or at least just waiting. This is what I became really good at earlier this week. Everything in Central America runs on its own time, so you have to be patient. My ability to be patient was really tested though when we arrived in La Ceiba, Honduras on Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning we got up early to go to the port where we were going to catch a boat to Utila Island to do some diving. Unfortunately, there is only one boat that goes to Utila, and on Wednesday it was broken. So they told us to hang out because it might be fixed. We waited for over 7 hours only to discover that there would be no boat that day at all.
This day turned out to not be a total waste though, because a group of us banded together and we ended up having a fun adventure team of 6: two Yankees, two Spaniards, a German girl and a Welsh lass set off to find some hot springs. We didn't, but we did stay in a dumpy little hotel on the beach, went swimming in some waterfalls and ponds, partied with the locals, and swam in the ocean at midnight, so it was definitely a day that ended better than it started.
Back to the dock Thursday morning. More waiting. One of our Spaniards abandoned us and hopped on a boat to a different island. At last they announced that a boat would be coming, so yesterday at 4pm we got on the Utila Princess and surfed some very rough waters (which made me turn green) to get to Utila. Which as it turns out is vale la pena.
Happy Fourth of July from Kenya!
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