Copan with Ms. Dani

A few notes about the pictures. Copan has the best coffee in all of Honduras and they make the best coffee shakes with it!
Batman and I discussing important Mayan artifacts.
Miss Dani going down into a tunnel.
A stressed out bird, literally! The bird park keeps the birds in big roomy cages because all of them were at one time in captivity, so they are tame. Many of them arrived in distress from people who didn't know how or just didn't take good care of them. As you can see he is one stressed out bird. They even have one specific cage for stressed birds. I'm not sure why they didn't have him in there. Perhaps because of the thing on his neck. He came from a woman in California who lived with the bird on a boat. Ms. Dani petting some baby tucans. The beautiful streets of Copan. The hamburger looking stone is where the Mayans performed their human sacrifices.


This past weekend we got out of town as fast as we could! It was good to be done with all the paper work at school and finally relax and sleep in a little. We stayed at a really beautiful, and cheap, hotel, quiet and clean. We saw the ancient Mayan ruins, and went underground to the tunnels that the archeologolists (sp?) have been excavating for 25ish years. It is really amazing. Our guide is pure mayan and a wealth of information. He speaks english, spanish, and one of the 28 remaining mayan languages (there were originally 32!) He was pretty funny. He was telling us how the ruins are becoming known as [Bat City] becuase the original name meant Bat because there were alot of them there. Then he went on to tell us that his name in Maya means bat or something like that, and his birthday is the day or month of the bat. I asked him jokingly, "So we should call you Batman?" thinking he would just laugh and give some kind of come back, but he just stared at us blankly in all seriousness, nodded his head, and said, "yes". So I did. "Hey Batman, what{s this over here?" "Hey Batman, can you read these hyroglyphics?" Which he actually could. He{s been helping the archeologists for many years decipher the writings. It was fascinating.
We also went to the bird park where my mom and aunt glenda went last july. Dani saw a snake and the guide took my camera and chased it down to try to get a picture but it got away. There was excitement at every turn!
We had an interesting time traveling. On our way there we took teh 4.30 am bus 3 hours north. There we were giong to take our connecting bus but it was already full becuase it was a little van, not a big bus like i thought. So we were stuck, because of the weird bus times, in the very hot and humid, bus terminal (no a-c of course) for about 5 hours. Since we weren{t used to it we started feeling dizzy and light headed, and closer to departure time we didn{t want to drink a lot of water because it was a 3 hour nonstop trip with no bano on board. On the way back yesterday we planned our trip around SHOPPING! We had seen some really great deals on some nice shirts and stuff in the terminal, so we thought we would have 2 hours before our connecting bus left. We went to the ticket counter to buy them and a man comes up to us all frantic, asking us hurriedly, "you going to La Esperanza? Well, hurry up the bus is here it leaves at 11!" Ok, he took my bag and we followed him. We get to the bus gate and he just sets my bag down. he said the bus wasn't there yet and it was only 10.30, so after he disappeared i took up my bag again and we went to the bathroom. Then we went to buy Dunkin Donuts to take back for everyone. We are in line and he comes all up in our personal space giving us that "What are you doing youre going to miss the bus!" look. I said, "Look, is the bus here?" "No." "Ok, we are gonig to buy our breakfast and we will be out there in plenty of time. " WHich we were. We sat on the hot stifling bus in the terminal for an hour before it left! They said it was going to leave at 11, then 11.10. All that shopping time just wasted! We were not happy, to say the least! But now we are back safe and sound.