September 15th was Honduras' Independence day, so we had a long weekend. First, at school all the students participated in a "parade." It was more like a march around campus. Here are some pictures of me and Natalie "marching" with her class.
The lady in the white shirt by Natalie is her favorite teacher, Miss Yule.
She's the bilingual one in Natalie's classroom.
Natalie did pretty well since I was there. It was quite an experience trying to get a group of 2 year olds to march, play a drum, wear a hat, and stay together. Most of them cried at some point.
After the half day of school, we went to the island of Roatan for a 4 day vacation. It was wonderful and relaxing. We spent most of our time playing on the beach, building sand castles and swimming in the warm, blue Caribbean water.
Breakfast at our hotel with some of the people we went with.
View from the restaurant at our hotel.
Ready for the beach!
Sunset on "our" beach.
$12 lobster dinner at Foster's, where we were staying.
Beach baby.
"Our" beach. It was mostly just used by the people we knew. We spent some time jumping off the pier on the left side.
Community pool by "the mansion" where some of the people we traveled with were staying. They hosted about 20 of us for a bar-b-que pool party.
Natalie and David enjoying the pool.
Natalie and her friend Latte, one of our coworker's dog.
She falls asleep in taxis, buses, ferries, and apparently, water taxis (fishing boats).
AMAZING Thai food lunch.
Tuna that David and some other people caught. The restaurant at the hotel cooked it up for us.
Natalie enjoyed the hammock almost as much as David did.
Baby girl loves to swim with his daddy.
Since then, we've been working a lot as next week is the end of the first quarter. I've been playing on a basketball team twice a week, which has been fun, but different. Much more to be said about that, but it will have to wait until another post.
For the past week my parents have been here visiting. It's nice to have them around, but I'm sure it's boring while we're at work during the day. There's not much to do in San Pedro. People don't come here to visit, it's just where the international airport is located. People land and leave.
Last weekend we took a trip to Tela, the closest beach for playing. Rainy season is beginning here, so we had to spend some time inside waiting for it to pass. Other than that, we enjoyed our time on the beach and playing in the pools at the neighboring resort.
I have a picture just like this of me and my grandpa. I love it.
Papa, Natalie, Nani
Building sand castles. Natalie kept saying her hands were dirty and she needed to wash them off.
Here are a few other pictures my mom took while she was here:
Presents!!!
For Natalie and Mommy!
Natalie's school building. It holds the two classrooms for 2-year-olds.
"Hollywood" playing on the balcony with Nani.
Showing Nani and Papa how she rides her bike. She can't actually reach the pedals yet,
but she's practicing steering.
I promise it won't be a month before I write again. Thinking about all of you at home and missing the autumn weather in Portland. When you're tired of the blustery weather, remember it could still be 90 and humid.
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