Honduras

So our third stop was Roatan, Honduras. It's a small island. We came out of the port and walked up this hill to find our guides for ziplining. At the bottom of the hill there were a bunch of guys who would yell to each new tourist that came up over the hill, trying to get them to come with them. There was clearly a line they weren't allowed to cross if they weren't already meeting people.

A driver took us to the other side of the island with the ziplining course. Ziplining is the thing that Roatan is known for so we were excited. There were 11 different lines that ranged from a few hundred feet to over a thousand. As we went through the trees we could see the ocean on the other side of us. An amazing setting, for sure. Our guides took our camera and took all these pictures for us with it. 

Most of the time we just ziplined across and braked ourselves (like Lexie above), but we each got the chance to go upside down and/or "Superman" style with one of the guides. I've included those pictures because they are the funniest.

*I was the first one to try it upside down and it was actually fairly painful. My harness left bruises around my hips.

On the last line they had us go across as couples. The Cottle's picture came out cute. Ours was terrible.

We made our guides race to get the boys' harnesses off at the end. It was pretty funny and I think Fast Eddie was a little disappointed that he lost.

Lexie stopped to pose with the monkey when we were done.

After ziplining our driver took us over to West Bay beach. It was gorgeous. The water was very still and salty. I don't really like salt water, but I do like how easily you float in it.

I love this picture.

We decided it would be really cool to try to stack as many people as we could. It was all funny until Nick got squeezed out from between us and I fell straight down onto Daniel's head. Then we all laughed at how stupid we are. I got a nice bruise and I am still nursing a sore jaw from it 3 weeks later. Apparently we caused quite a scene because a woman came up to me in the ship later and asked how I was doing.

Of course any trip to the beach wouldn't be complete without digging a pointless hole. This was made especially fun by our little friend Henry joining in. His mom was selling stuff on the beach. Lexie and I refrained from writing anything in the sand this time, but just know that we were thinking it the whole time they dug.

Lexie and I took a long walk on the beach and bought all the girls some handmade Honduran dolls. Not the highest quality, but we saw the same dolls for double the cost at the ship port, so I am happy with it. 

All in all, another really great day.