Saturday Sept 12- Vacation in Tela

We have a four day weekend this weekend because next week Tuesday is Independence Day for Honduras and then Thursday is Teacher’s Day, so they just decided to put it together and give us Monday and Tuesday off. We decided to go to Tela, which is a beach city on the northern Caribbean coast in Honduras. Ana, one of the other teachers at Vida Abudante, helped us book the hotel, which was great because she knew where to find good deals; we got a hotel for about $25-$30 total per person for 3 nights. So I was stoked to be able to go to the beach in September. We had to take buses all the way there though, but that’s just how things go here in Honduras if you want to go somewhere and don’t have a car. So off we go down the mountain, get a ride down the mountain, and get a bus to Santa Rosa. And you would not believe who was on that bus AGAIN…remember the creepy clowns from last time? Yeah there were on the bus…again. We all were like NO WAY and couldn’t believe our “luck.” So we traveled to Santa Rosa on a crowded chicken bus, the most crowded I have ever seen one. And then Sarah sees this cute guy on the bus and he keeps looking back and she keeps making eye contact with him…it was great. Sarah was so excited she had a ‘bus boyfriend.’ The craziest part of our trip was when we got off in Santa Rosa and had to find our own bus to SPS. There were all these men on us right away yelling in Spanish to come to their bus, it’s cheaper, it’s faster, it’s more direct, etc. It was SO overwhelming because they kept trying to herd us to this bus and then pull us to that one and we were just getting sick of it. Finally we got on a nicer one, more like a greyhound type and settled in for our ride to SPS. And you wouldn’t believe who was on that bus…oh yes, the clowns. Unbelievable. We also had a a guy come on the bus and preach to us on the way to SPS. Always entertaining riding buses. J It was a pretty good ride, except we went really slow for about an hour. Finally got to SPS at the bus terminal and found the right bus to take us to Tela. It was a smaller more touristy one, but I don’t think many buses believe in air conditioning here haha. At last got to Tela at like 4 pm after like 8 hours of travel and we got dropped off at a gas station in Tela. We were like ‘Ok where do we go now and where is our hotel?’ A nice taxi driver told us we just had to walk up this street to the hotel and it was right there. So we walked in HOT and humid weather, found our hotel right on the beautiful ocean and enjoyed the air conditioning and cable TV of our room for a while. Afterwards we explored town a little bit, got some dinner at our hotel restaurant right on the beach, and crashed afterwards.