Saturday, November 21

Kirsty and I walked to town again today, but we left a little later than normal so we had to book it to town. On the way we had good conversation as usual and were talking about politics in the US, how its looking right now, how we think it will be in the coming years. We came up with a grand idea to solve all the problems of bipartisanship when it comes to choosing a president. Kirsty and I will be the President and VP on the first bipartisan all female ticket. That way we can cover all the bases: get the women, get the moderates, get the Democrats and Republicans except for the far left and right who don’t want to come more to the middle. And if we marry people of another race, that will just add to our appeal. She’s going to get a law degree, I can be a world traveler/missionary…what experience we’d have. And then our other great idea was she could be president for 2 years, then I’d be president for 2 years so we could share the spotlight and responsibilities. I don’t think this will really come true, but we had a great time coming up with all these ideas and dreaming that it might be possible for something like that in government someday. We got to the bank just in time and were sweating so much because we walked so fast. I love a good workout, but I hate being sweaty and then having to wait in line in public. We had to wait for 45 minutes, too. I swear I don’t know what takes the Hondurans so long at the tellers. I say I need this much money, they get it, I sign and I’m done.
Eventually we got done and headed to Guancascos for lunch and internet. We stayed there for quite a while, went to recharge our phones, and headed up the mountain just as it was becoming dark. We had planned a bonfire for tonight because we had all these cereal boxes and package boxes that we needed to get rid of, so why not try a fire? Well we weren’t very prepared because we didn’t have much wood, kindling or other. We went looking for some wood and Kirsty and Laura Beth come tromping back in the house with a tree branch and they were like ‘Our Christmas tree!’ So we all got excited and LB had lights and ornaments she had bought. So we decorated our ‘Christmas tree’ and propped it up against the wall. We all put on green and red clothes and mittens and scarves and took the picture in front of our tree. After that little sidetrack, we tried making the fire first with the cardboard and paper, but it didn’t work.
So we went searching for wood, but a lot of it was damp; I mean we live in a cloud forest. Mr. Bran found some good kindling wood so Alyssa and I remade the fire and we finally got it burning well after some time. We were prepared with the food for a bonfire though; we had bought marshmallows, chocolate and graham cracker-like crackers for s’mores! It was also one of Alex and Alyssa’s last nights in Honduras because they head back to the States on Monday so it was kinda like our little going away party. We got some good embers going, roasted tons of marshmallows, had some great s’mores, and stayed up really late. It was a great Saturday night in Villa Verde.