Update

So, this is a long overdue update!

However, since I'm fairly sure my parents make up about 50% of my blog audience, I didn't do any updating while they were in town.

It was a really great trip, and I loved showing them where I am living. We spent a week in Copan Ruinas, two days in Pico Bonito (an incredible National Park), and another week in Roatan. I got very very good at being on vacation!

Also, if you are looking for an amazing place to stay in Honduras you should have my mom do your travel plans. Both of the places we stayed were incredible!

For example, this was our dock in Roatan. Every night we watched the sunset out there:

 Doesn't get much better than that!

Now, Jill and I have started our adventure to Panama. We arrived in Managua, Nicaragua yesterday and head on to Grenada tomorrow!

Proof!

When I said the wheel fell off I was not exaggerating..

Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

A few photos of Pulhapanzak Waterfall near the brewery

Enjoy!

An Vacation Begins!

I wrapped up my last brigade (University of Wyoming) of 2012 last week.

Do you know what that means? 

Vacation has officially begun! 

Okay, so life is pretty cushy on a daily basis but I am still really excited about this vacation!

So far our itinerary looks something like this

2 weeks of travel with my parents and Mollie

Copan Ruinas and Roatan - I'm so excited to see them!

San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua 

It is sea turtle season - #2 on my goals for my 27th year

Panama City - New Years Eve

Bocas del Toro, Panama

2 weeks at Palmer Tent Lodge - More on this later

Obviously, there will be lots of stuff in between but that is the plan so far!

Jill and I are kicking our travels off with a few nights here:

D & D Brewery! Good beer in Honduras - It is going to be hard to leave

Gotta love life in Honduras!

Giving thanks in Honduras

I made Pumpkin Pie!

Homemade pumpkin pie! From scratch!

This was an especially big deal because making pumpkin pie from scratch in Honduras is no easy task.

 Every single ingredient has to be tracked down at a different store. 

We had one tiny oven so we did everything in shifts

Add this to the fact we were making pie for 50 people! 

It was a serious, twelve hour long, task.

Step One

Track down a pumpkin or squash. 

We purchased two from our lovely neighbor at the clinic

Pie One

Pie Two: This made for a very very green pumpkin pie

 Step Two

Attempt to hack open the squash

Jill trying her best

 Step Three

Find Maria and have her do it

Don't mess with a Honduran woman. They are T.O.U.G.H.

Step Four

Clean out your squash

This is pie one. Squash here has very very green insides.

Step Five

Bake the squash to make "goop" for the pie insides

 

 

We only had one tiny oven. With one oven rack. This was a long process

Step Six

Scoop out all the insides

This was pie one. It actually looked like normal pie

 Step Seven

Blend up all the insides

Pie One: We realized about this point we were making WAY too much pumpkin goop

Pie Two: Yeah. yeah. Not an appetizing color

 Step Eight

Make the pie dough

Jill's grandma's dough recipe. I told you this was from scratch!

Step Nine

Fill the pies and bake

Jill filling pies! This was just one of the vats of pie goop

 Step 10

Enjoy so much pie!

Pie One! Probably some of the best pie I have ever eaten

Pie Two! This one came out very green!

 

 The green color did not go over well with some of the little kids at the bilingual school.

One child nearly cried when I tried to give him a slice.

In the end we made FIVE pies, though a few of them were crustless

And we still have all of this leftover

Pumpkin goop waiting in the freezer for future pies

There will be many more to come!