Thursday
Today was our travel day to SPS, which turned out to be not bad at all since we were able to catch a ride. We left Gracias around 9, stopped in Santa Rosa to get coffee (thanks Mrs. Espinal), and drove to SPS. We rested and played some games with the kids, got a little carsick so we had to make sure we sat forward, but otherwise the trip was great! They dropped us off at the hotel where we relaxed at the hotel by the pool. We met this guy who is a doctor for the US Army or something and it was interesting talking to him, hearing his perspective on Honduras, what he’s done, where he’s gone, etc. I just love meeting people, especially from America, randomly in Honduras because they always have interesting stories. We told him what we were doing and he thought it was just great haha. We were going to have sushi for dinner, but couldn’t find the place so we decided to go to good ol’ Applebees in the City Mall and have a little splurge before we came back to the States. We were all so excited about the options for dinner, bouncy seats, great ketchup on real big burgers…it was an experience. We wandered the mall a little bit then headed back to the hotel to turn in for the night and get ready to go home tomorrow!
Friday
I’m going home today!!! Laura Beth got up the earliest of us because she thought she had an earlier flight from SPS; it turned out after some freaking out and confusion, that she was on the same flight as us to Houston. We got ready and took the shuttle to the airport around 9 and began our checking in process. I totally forgot about the weight limit thing on my suitcase, so I had to give Jacki some of my weight, but then I was good to go. SPS is a small airport, so it made things relatively easy getting through security and such. We waited for a while, talking about how we’d be in America so soon, people watching, and then it came time to say bye to Kirsty because she was flying from Atlanta to Houston. The rest of us boarded our plane to Houston and off we went. The flight went great and we landed in Houston and started freaking out…we were back in America! We sped walked through the airport to get to customs and just marveled at how big the airport was, how clean, how sparkly. Customs and baggage recheck went fine, thank goodness and then we were in the Houston airport!
A few of our first reactions: 1) We could flush the toilet paper down the toilet. 2) We could drink water straight from tap or a drinking fountain. 3) There are so many different types of people in America! African American, Asian, Hispanic, white…it was a change to see such variety after seeing all short, tan and darker haired people for 4 months haha. We got lunch at (guess where) McDonald’s and then found out our flight to Chicago had been delayed 2 hours because of possible bad weather. I was a little upset and tried to see if there was some other way to get there sooner, but they were all too expensive. Now we would be getting into Chicago at like 10:30/11:30ET and then have to drive home to Michigan. Well eventually our plane came, we boarded and arrived in Chicago. Here was another surprise of seeing snow on the ground and the plane. Jacki and I were freaking out more; I think people thought we were crazy. We got off the plane and I met my parents by baggage claim; it was so good to see them! We completed our travel day by loading everyone in the Yukon with all of our stuff and driving another 2-3 hours home to Michigan, getting in at about 4 am. Wow…but I’m glad to be home.
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