Honduras Part 4

I find my self on day eight, of this amazing trip, already. Well, like I said before that we were leaving Roatan a little early, and were headed back to El Progresso. It was really fun on Roatan, but I was already getting the big rock syndrome. I didn't want to be on that little island for very much longer. So Jared and I went to the airport to get a ticket to cross the water instead of taking that stupid boat again. Hopefully, I thought, that the airport won't close. Well it didn't close so that made me really happy. during the 15 min. flight Jared said that they were going to drop him off and take me back so I would have to take the boat. He said that they won't let me back until I had thrown up three more times. Well, of course they didn't take me back to Roatan. We got to the main land and caught a bus to El Progresso. That was a really long bus ride. Jared was hoping that somebody would be home at the doctors house so we didn't have to care our luggage around with us. When we got there, luckily, somebody was there to let us in. For the rest of the day I pretty much slept and then went and called home. Jared has pictures of this day. One of me and my burnt arms and pictures of the ocean from the plane. I forgot to get them from him. So Jenny Ann would you please send those to me, or you could just have Jared do that.

Day nine, the second to last day in Honduras. On this day we went shopping for gifts for everybody. We got most of the jerseys on this day. This day was also the day that we had the big BBQ. It was really fun, and the meat was really good. The only problem was that they gave me so much. My plate was full of meat and it was piled up so I had like three steaks on the plate. It was really good and the sauce that they had for the meat was amazing. One was really hot where as the other was mild, and both were really good. The thing is that Jared forgot to tell me that I had to have a dress shirt for the BBQ before I went down there so I had to use one of Jared's shirt. It is a really nice shirt unless he has done something to it.

Finally day ten, my last day. Today was a very long day. I had to get up, get all me things ready to go to the airplort, and then I had to go to the airport. That was just until I got to the airport. When I got to the airport there were no Delta people at the place that I pick up my tickets from. So Jared and I waited around for a little while and they finally came. So Jared and I went through security and waited for our planes. It was a long wait for I had an hour wait longer than Jared. After that I had a four hour flight to Atlanta, then went through customs there, and finally a four hour flight back to Salt Lake City. It was a long day. So there is my trip. I have told you everything I wanted to tell you. Have a fun day.

MY NEW JOB

Well now it is time to tell every one about my new job. I got a new job last Friday and I started yesterday. You would ask who would hire someone like me. A person that is crazy beyond compare. The answer to that is Jubilee or other words Jim Davies Foods. It is a small store that is by the Valley Fair Mall and Party City. It is fun when I am busy but when it is slow it is very boring. I am the checker. All I do is work at the registers. So there it is, my parents are happy and I got them off my back. I just wish that I would see more people that I know. Like that is ever going to happen. No body I know goes to Jubilee to shop for food. They all either go to Harmons, Smith's, or Abertsons. So if I am not at home or with friends I am at that job working.

Honduras part 3

Here is part three of this amazing trip. For those that haven’t stayed with use here is what happened. Day 1, long flight to Honduras; day 2, hiked through the jungle while friends at home went to prom; day 3, went to church and Copan; day 4, saw the ruins and Copan. Now that everybody is caught up here it goes. We are now on day five out of the ten. Half way there to the end, so sad isn’t it?

The next day, day five for those that haven’t read the ones before, we got on another bus that went to an airport that was really small. When we got there it was great weather. It wasn’t raining at all. So Jared and I bought tickets for an island called Roatan. It is a really big scuba diving place. Well we sat there and waited and waited. Ten minutes after we got there, they shutdown the airport and no planes can take off or land. We decided to wait a little long, three o’clock, and it was ten o’clock when we decided this. So you can imagine the waiting that we did. At three we went to the docks to get a ticket for the fairy. Luckily we got our money back from the airport. Once we got to the fairy we did some more waiting. The nickname of the fairy is the vomit comet. For everyone that took this fairy gets sick, and throws up. It was a two and a half hour boat ride which was bad for it was really stormy out on the ocean. There were waves that were so big that the boat would hit them at the front and the waves would still reach the back of the boat, where we were. I have to admit, this was the first time I have had the dry heaves. They are not something that I want every again. Those that have had them know why. Once when we got to the island, the weather had calmed down. We got off the boat and tried to find a taxi that would take us to the west side. Here is where we meat David, a really cool guy.

When we got to West End, the little area on the west side, we started to look for a place to stay for a few days. The only problem was that it was like ten o’clock when we finally got to West End; so most of the hotels and other places were closed for the night. Luckily Jared remembered the “Pink Giant,” that is what we called it for it was huge and pink with green rooms. My dad would have said that it was the perfect Mexican hotel. That is just how my dad is just so you know. After we found a place to stay we went hunting for food. We food a hamburger place that was on a dock, this place was not a very good place to eat. Since it was on a dock, and waves on the west side were still bad; it just made us sick again. This is the part that I think is funny, for Jared still makes fun of me throwing up, he through up at the restaurant. He says that it wasn’t because that he was sea sick, but something else. I disagree with him on that totally.


The next day, the 6th day, Jared and I went into town to find a place so I can go through some scuba class and get certified. We found one called the Coconut Tree. The owners name was really weird to, his name was Tree. I think that he had it changed when he became a tree huger. Were I started my classes that day. All I did for this day was watch videos on scuba diving. It was long and very boring. The videos were really stupid and they kept telling jokes that made no since what so ever. While I was doing this Jared was taking a warm-up course and then he did a dive. I think that this was one of the longest days that I have ever had down there. At least I got done with all the book work in that one day. The videos went along with it so it was pretty easy.

Day seven was a lot better for me not so much for Jared. I got to go diving and get most of my certification done. It wasn’t that good for Jared for he was getting really sick. His ear was also hurting him really badly from diving. On my first dive my instructor and I walked out to the bay and just swam to where we were going to dive. It wasn’t really that hard to get out there. I think that the hardest part for me was getting used to breathing under water and empting my mask of water under water. Something that doesn’t make since now does it. Those that have gone scuba diving know that it is possible to do this. Those that haven’t gone, here is how you do that. First, you grab your mask and lift the bottom up a little and blow through your nose as hard as possible. Then you let go of the mask right when you stop. If you don’t do this; your mask will fill right back up, and you don’t want to lift up the bottom to much or it won’t work. After this I went back to the shore and meet up with my brother. We had lunch and then went back to go for another dive. This one Jared went with me. This was a really cool dive for I got to see a lot of sea life. Not as much as Jared for he went deep then I did, but I don’t care. I got to swim with a sea turtle and a lot of different kinds of fish. It was really cool to do that. When this dive was done and when I reached the surface I got really sick. Once when I got the mouth piece out of my mouth, I through upped into the ocean. The cool thing is that the vomit was a florescent green. We got back to the shore and I was supposed to go for another dive, but I was really sick so I didn’t go. On the way back to our hotel we decided that we were going to head back for El Progresso. So I went and got my scuba paper work and went back to the hotel.

Stay tuned for part four.

3 JOYS

1-Biking. It is just awesome to be able to go down a mountain on a vehicle that has no protection for you, and it is just fun to be on a bike. It beats hiking any day.

2-My second is a little harder to think of. I guess that it is a tie between shooting and being with friends and family

3-Fishing is my third favorite joy. I don't know what it is about fishing but it just clears the mind of all troubles.

3 FEARS

1-Dissapporting others. Only big dissapportments are the ones that I am afraid of.

2-Drowning. I like swimming and Scuba diving is fun, but for some reason I would
hate to drown.

3-Not being able to go on my mission. Having a physical condition that would stop me from going would just suck. That would be the only reason why I don't go.

3 CURRENT OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS

1-Checking my email. Not a good one.

2-Model airplanes. I just love airplanes and if I ever get enough money I am going to get my pilots licence.

3-Currency. I like to get money different bills in defferent currencies. So far I have Canadian, American, and Hondurian.

3 SURPRISING FACTS

1-I like working with wood. It has just been something that nobody but my family really knows. I am getting pretty good at it.

2-I am older than I look. Most of my friends thought that I had like a year after I graduated before I lift on my mission. Nope that was a false thought. Only have a few months before I could have put my mission papers in.

3-I took martial arts and I my next belt is black belt. I stopped for I my teacher lift town and I just haven't looked for a new one.

TAG 5 PEOPLE

1-Jared

2-Chris Thatcher

3-one more of those that I know that haven't done it

4-one more of those that I know that haven't done it

5-one more of those that I know that haven't done it

Where here is the second part of my trip down to Honduras. I believe I left off when I had just got to Copan. Copan was a very cool city. It was like all of those really nice cities that are in the movies that are in Latin America. Copan is also surrounded by jungle; everywhere you look there is jungle. It was an awesome scene when we went to dinner the first night. I am sorry that we had to spend money on Sunday, but sometimes you just need to do just that. Jared didn’t want me to go a day without eating anything. For dinner that night we went to an American restaurant. It had two levels, and we were on the second level. It was one of the coolest things for it was quiet and it was so beautiful to see.

As you can see here is a picture of Jared and I at the restaurant. You can’t see the surroundings very well, but oh well.

The next day Jared and I went to the ruins. They were amazing to see. It was really cool to see as well with someone that believes in the same thing as you. Jared and I were talking about the Nephites and the Lamanites. We were wondering if it was a Lamanite city or a Nephite city. It was really cool for there was a huge wall that had once surrounded the entire city. This wall was very tall so we thought that it was a Nephite city, but the Lamanites could have always just have stolen the idea from the Nephites. There was also a tower that was set in the middle of a field. Now this tower was really cool. Jared had told me that if you stand on the pyramid, for that is what it actually was, you could talk normally, and someone can hear it in the humongous field. So when we got there that is one of the first things that we tried. Jared went to the top of the pyramid and spoke normally I was about fifty yards away from the pyramid. The next step to trying to figure it out was for me to go on top of the pyramid while Jared went about three football fields away. Alright it wasn’t three, but I bet that it was about two which is still very far away. That field was that big in all directions too. So when Jared got there he had to yell to me to speak. So when I did, and all I did was just raise my voice just a little. It was belly over a normal voice and Jared could still hear what I was saying.

The top was a picture of me on top of the pyramid and the bottom one is a pictures of macaws on top of the pyramid. Before Jared went out to the far end of the field he and I started to throw banana chips on the pyramid to see if we could get the macaws to come over to us. Well, as you can see they did. The picture of macaws was taken when they were only five to six feet away from us. After the whole pyramid thing we went to the see the rest of the ruins. They were just as cool. There was this one place where it looks like a stadium, and I guess that they have figured out what went on there. In the field that was in the middle of the stadium they said that the natives would play a game that was sort of like soccer and basketball there. It was told that the losers would die as well. That is one game that I would play my hardest at. By the field there is this huge staircase. They have this huge tent thing over it so it won’t get ruined by the weather. It was cool to see because on the staircase there was all this carving in it. I would hate to have to carve out all of those symbols for the stairs. Okay lets us move on with the rest of the ruins. After looking around for a while Jared and I went to the top of this huge pyramid, I mean this thing was the gigantor of the all of the pyramids there. We could see all of the ruins from the top of this pyramid. When we got to the top we sat down and eat some chips. Banana chips are really good, but after a while you get sick of them. Banana chips are also a good way to plug you up; for bananas are natural constipaters. After looking at all of the ruins, we went back to the city of Copan and get a bus back to El Progresso. That was another very long trip but it was really fun. I slept most of the way were as Jared didn’t. When we got back to El Progresso we went back to the doctor’s house. We had dinner at the mall that was in El Progresso. It was really good, but for some reason the whole time that I was down there I didn’t eat very much. It was really good food though.

I have now decided that this may be more than three parts it may be like five or six. I am trying to get two days in but this time I only got one.