Honduras Day #6 - our last day!

Monday, December 31, 2012

We started off the day again by making more pb&j sandwiches, or samiches as we like to call them. This is John showing off his jar emptying skills...lovely right?

We did our last VBS at San Pedro this morning. We were all very excited because this was the place that we poured the floor on the first day and we were going to be able to see the kids that we had met earlier in the week again. We were welcomed at this church with all of the kids singing us a song. Then we went through our VBS program of songs, skit, and crafts. Except this time when John O. and Bo (the lions) started growling at Collin (Daniel) 2 kids started crying! Whoops... 

We brought all the toys and stickers that we had left from the week to give out to the kids and they LOVED them. You would have thought we were giving out gold.

Cristiano really liked the stickers...

We got back and said our goodbyes to everyone at the compound. It was so hard to tell them goodbye! They have all been so good to us while we have been there! This is a picture of me with JJ one of the special needs residents at the compound. He is one of the nicest people on the whole planet! It was very hard to tell him bye!

Our whole group: (left to right from back) Danielle, Bo, Morgan, John O., Pablo,  Mr. Gary, JJ, Sheila (in the corner), Karla, Andrew, Collin, John G., Mcauley, Regito, Torre, Alexa, Melissa, Sam, and me

After we got everything loaded up, we started the short trek to Juticalpa, where Karla, our translator, is from. We only had about an hour drive there, and we stopped to get some sweet pictures on the way!

Once at the hotel in Juticalpa, we walked with Karla over to her grandma's house to meet her family. Then we returned to the hotel. The guys found some coconut trees by the pool and decided they would try to open them and try to eat or drink them. Bad idea. Those things were disgusting!

Later we went back to Karla's grandma's for dinner that night. They cooked all of us SO much food and it was all DELICIOUS! Also, all of Karla's younger cousins and her younger brothers speak English so we were able to talk with them the whole time we were there.

We went outside and shot off some small fireworks and fire crackers. And then lit some sparklers!

It was an incredible last dinner in Honduras. We had so much fun getting to know Karla's family and we were so thankful for not only their hospitality that night, but all of her help translating for us all week.

After dinner we went back to the hotel, played some dutch blitz, and celebrated the Georgia new year and the Honduran new year with style and sparkling grape juice!

*There is so much that I still have to process from this trip. However, I am posting these blogs while I am in El Salvador. So I am going to be processing for a while. I promise this is not the last you will hear about Honduras. Now I will begin the daily updates from El Salvador, but they will be a few days behind. Sorry! Please continue to bear with me as I try to get caught up!