Happy Thanksgiving!

Kathleen: Hi everyone and happy thanksgiving!! It's very strange to be HOT and not surrounded by family and smells of good cooking right now, but our thoughts are with all of our loved ones... and truth be told, are a little homesick. We have been about 10 days in Honduras {land of slow internet... sorry for no pictures in this post, but it takes, literally, a million years to upload even one} and have mainly been sticking to the Carribean coast. We stayed a few days in Tela, a quiet little town that is mainly a weekend getaway for Honduran families in the nearby big city of San Pedro Sula, and mainly just swam and hung out; then two nights in Triumpho de la Cruz, a Garifuna village {black Carribeans} , where we went for a cool hike up the coast and got DESTROYED by mosquitos; and then a night in La Ceiba, a bigger city on a dirty beach. The next night we did a homestay with a family living in a village about 16 km out of La Ceiba, and camped in the jungle the next night.... where, of course, it rained!! Then we headed up the coast to Trujillo, where Columbus landed on one of his journeys and stayed at a lovely little place on the beach {which was unfortunately all mucked up from a recent storm}. We were planning on continuing our journey north into Mosquitia, but I got some exciting news when we arrived in Trujillo.... a midwife in Guatemala has agreed to let me come and work with her for a month... and I will be doing the whole clinical gamut... gyn exams, contraceptive counseling, birth assisting, etc... ALL IN SPANISH, which will be... a miracle, if it happens. As of now, I have no idea how to do any of that in Spanish, but I guess there is no better way to learn. As we've already been in Guatemala, Tait is going to continue South as we had originally planned through Nicaragua and then maybe to Costa Rica if he has the time.

Today we arrived on the island of Utila to become certified scuba divers. We had not been planning to do this... because although it is the cheapest place in the world to be certified, I was not of the opinion that we should seek out more expensive hobbies than we already have. But two dutch guys we met in La Ceiba convinced us otherwise... talking about the whole underwater world across the world that diving opens up. So here we are and we start tomorrow... Thanksgiving!! We'll be here probably 5 days then might have a day or two to do something else fun, then onwards and upwards.

So, we have much to be thankful for... although tonight I am wishing that we could be with the people we love. Eat lots of good food for us {and a piece of pumkin pie for me} . We'll write more soon.