Semana Santa

Tela to San Pedro
Today was sadly our last day in Tela because we had to head back to San Pedro. Our friends were flying out tomorrow, so we needed to be in town to make it to the airport. I spent the morning sleeping, eating breakfast on our beachside restaurant, and getting some last minute rays. I even got to try some coconut milk during breakfast, straight from a coconut. Tela was really busy today because it was so close to the weekend and of course it was beautiful the day we left. Before we checked out, we took advantage of our balcony at the hotel and took a bunch of group pictures with the gorgeous oceanfront in the background…paradise I tell you! We made our way to the streets to get a quick lunch of pupusas before we got a taxi to take us to the place where direct buses go to San Pedro. We were waiting for the bus and then Steve realized he had forgotten his phone back at the hotel. So Tad, Steve, and Mike quickly got a taxi back to the hotel to find it. Meanwhile, we girls were waiting, hoping they’d be back in time when the next bus came. One came and it stood waiting for a few minutes; I had almost lost hope that we’d have to wait another half hour when the boys rounded the corner in a taxi. I ran to the bus to ask it to wait (not necessary as I found out later), and we all boarded just in the nick of time. The bus was great; it was really direct this time and didn’t cram a whole bunch of people into the aisle.

We arrived in SPS about two hours later and had our hotel pick us up at the bus terminal. I had used this hotel (Villa Nuria) before for its convenience and all it offers for the price; the rest of the group agreed it was money well spent. Since we were in San Pedro, the Americans who were living in Honduras (LB, Mike, Tad and I) especially wanted to eat some American food; so we took the shuttle to the city all where there was an Applebees restaurant. A burger has never tasted so good when you haven’t had a good one in over 2 months! We relished our meals and then headed back the hotel. We girls just hung out and went to bed early to bed to be ready for tomorrow.