Spring Break- Roatan Honduras

I wasn't sure what to expect in Honduras.  It was pretty chaotic once we got out of the port bubble.  People all mashed together walked down the street with people holding signs for different tour companies everywhere.

We had booked a tour from a different company because Royal Caribbean are a bunch of ageists and wouldn't let us book the zipline excursion for Cheryl because she was over 65.  The company that we used was one that Camille, our travel agent, had vetted for us so I felt good about it.  It took awhile to find them though.  Once we did and got checked in, we all walked down this road about half a mile to the zipline place.

Sadie started saying she felt nauseated.  This isn't that abnormal for Sadie.  She gets headaches more than the average child.  Heat bothers her more than the average child, therefore nausea didn't surprise me too much.  However, this was morning after the incident with Cheryl so I couldn't brush her off telling her she would be fine because I just didn't know.  But what I did know is that ziplining with an upset stomach would not be fun.  So I volunteered to stay back with Sadie while everyone else went ziplining.  We sat in the shade and rested.  She even got in my head a little and made me nervous about my own stomach.  I've done ziplining plenty of times and this area didn't even look all that impressive so I wasn't that worried about missing it.  Turns out they had tons of fun.  The guy was showing them how to go upside down and stuff.  They are much more lax here than in other places we've been, lol.

They loaded into the back of this truck that took them up a steep bumpy hill, an adventure in itself.

Ryan wore his meta glasses and took some cool pictures and videos.

After ziplining we headed over to the tiny little zoo where they had sloths and a toucan and some other animals.  It was so hot.  It was really crowded.  And I felt bad for the animals.

Holding the sloth was amazing.  They are so interesting and have the cutest little faces.  I'm sure they probably don't love being passed off to people all day long, but their faces look happy so it's hard to know.

We then took a pretty long bus ride, apparently across the whole island.  It was like 45 minutes or so.  I don't know what I was expecting with snorkeling.  We were all so tired and the boys were saying they would sit out on the snorkeling.  They served us food and that was interesting.  I think everyone else had some sort of fried chicken, but Ryan and Kylee and I ordered the fish.  We were a little surprised when it came out with eyes, lol.

It was pretty good though!  We didn't love the plantains. 

They took us out on a little boat for the snorkeling so everyone had to come (I wasn't leaving any kids alone on a small beach in Honduras).  They drove us out to this little sandbar area.  It was beautiful water!  And it ended up being really cool!  Dylan and Kaden both decided to come.  Kaden didn't do too great though.  He tried using the life jacket to help but he just couldn't get the hang of breathing without getting salty water.  And he eventually got back on the boat while the rest of us finished.

There were tons of starfish and we were allowed to dive down and pick them up but just not bring them out of the water.  Most of them were giant and fat, different from what we are used to.  FYI diving down 7-8 feet seems like it wouldn't be too hard but it is kind of hard.

There was a natural current so they dropped us further away and then the boat drifted along with us and met us at the other end so we didn't have to fight the current to get back.  At the end, there was a dropoff where the water just changed color and you couldn't see anything anymore.  But before that we saw some of the coolest reef and fish I've ever seen while snorkeling.  It was awesome. 

Here we are after a very full, tiring, hot day.  The bus driver was almost late getting us back.  There was some unexpected traffic I think, and he tried a different road thinking it would be faster but it really wasn't.  We were all sweating just a little.  I figured they wouldn't really leave such a big group, but you never know.  No problems though, we made it back with some time to spare to take a picture.  We were originally with Sara's family but they put us in different buses and then different boats so we didn't really see them after the zoo.  They made it back too, no worries.