After a long and almost uneventful journey, we have made it to Nicaragua. We were going to take the ferry, bus, bus, bus, shuttle route but with all these children, we decided to fly instead. The flight was a whole day ordeal but the actual flight time was less than 3 hours. Unfortunately we had to stop 3 times but at least everyone could get out and stretch between flights. Lena automatically searched out the nearest vomit bag on each flight, but thankfully none were necessary.
At the airport in San Pedro Sula (Honduras) we had a 3 hour layover and not much to do but check out the 1 duty free shop. Jason asked one of the security guards where we could get something to eat and she said there was a Wendy’s, but it was out of the secure area so she would have to take him down and then back through security. So off they went and a short while later Jason came back with the goods. As we were eating a woman came up to us and asked us where we got the food. We told her the story and she started telling us how rude the security guards were to her when she asked to go get something and on and on. She went off to complain some more and ten minutes later a couple of security guys asked us (in English...) if we were enjoying our lunch. I said yes and then he asked if we spoke Spanish. So, in our broken Spanish we explained how we got our lunch and they wanted to know who let us do such a thing bla bla bla.... Great! Now we thought we were going to get someone fired!!
We aren’t sure what happened, but the woman who was complaining was shortly thereafter sitting down and eating her own Wendy’s lunch. Yikes, we thought we were just having lunch!!
Anyhoo, all is well now. We are in Granada which is lovely. Our hotel "The Colonial" is beautiful and we have a suite! The girls are having a swim because it is very hot here and the boy is having a nap on our king size bed ... we are so getting one of these giant beds when we get home!
Today we have to actually start doing some planning because our time is running out. It has been great to just play it by ear, but I guess this is our slow transition back to the real world.
