Saturday - Copan

After having an awesome week of medical clinics and construction of 2 houses, we are now in Copan, and trying to make use of every minute of the day. As I am writing this morning - Sunday - 5 of our group are headed out for the canopy tour. On Saturday though, we arrived in Copan around 11:30, had some lunch, and went to the Ruinas de Copan. After touring the Mayan site, the next adventure was horseback riding. We found a new guide who seemed to be very honest and will try to keep his card to look him up next year. He happens to be the brother of the guide we had at the ruins. After riding and lots of sore body parts, shopping was the next thing on the agenda, and we stayed mostly on the street that leads down to Carnita´s, where we had our usual traditional meal on the upper level. All were amazed at how the staff were carrying bottles and glasses on top of their heads. Also, it was fun to watch the cook at the grill with the bellows to heat up the fire.

The day was full, but we all had soooo much fun and time to relax and enjoy our free time together. The hotel is very beautiful, and the rooms are great. Gustavo has the best room ' the ´honeymoon suite´! He even has a grande screen TV. The town was very busy today, and tonight was very noisy. Besides lots of loud music and drums, they were shooting off fireworks every 5 minutes or so...... probably till 2:00 AM or later. Most of us were able to sleep through it anyhow.

Well, this is just a quick update. Hopefully in the next few weeks we will update this and write up some more stories for you.

Thanks for all your prayers and support! This week has been incredible, and you´ll have to talk to our team to hear their stories.

We hope to be back in San Pedro Sula by 5:00 today, so that we can go out to Gracias a Dios one last time. We want to pick up the letters from our penpals from Pastor Juan, and we also want to see if Mauricio and Josue´finished the house. After that, we will probably see Dinora and her family in the evening, along with Aurora, give them our gifts, and say our good-byes, as we will be leaving for the airport around 4:30 in the morning on Monday.

For the team, Bob