This and That
Trip Start
Mar 28, 2003
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Trip End
Jul 23, 2003
Tegucigalpa,
Honduras
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
exercises will take place.
I went to the Army Ball on Friday night. It was really nice to see all the servicemen dressed up in their formal uniforms. It was your basic dinner with speeches and toasts and dancing after. My boss finally taught me how to Merengue, so that was fun. I was extremely tired after a brutal Thursday night Happy Hour at Ruby Tuesday's (that's our new ritual every Thursday now). So I got home around midnight. Saturday just hung out by the pool and then a bunch of us went to El Patio for some beers. I turned in early
again on Saturday to gear up for our big Sunday.
On Sunday a group of about 10 of us went to La Tigra. It's a protected park about 30 mintues outside of Tegus. It's often called the "Cloud Forest" b/c you are actually up high enough (about 7,000 ft) that you are up in the clouds for some of the day. The hike was pretty difficult, but well worth it. We hiked in about 1.5 hours to the waterfall and then out another 2.5 hours through the valley and by the old mines. All in all, we were there from about 10-4 and just as we started driving out it started to pour.
As I've mentioned before, it's the rainy season right now and they call it winter (which is odd to us Gringos b/c it's still so hot that it feels like summer). The good thing is that it never rains in the morning and usually doesn't start to rain until about 6 pm at the earliest...so you can usually plan activities accordingly--it's honestly a fullproof method!
Other than that, it's just another work week. I went to this big signing ceremony at the Police compund with the Ambassador and some other Embassy people--as we're giving their police program some money. It was cool b/c I got to ride in the Ambassador's armored Suburban and I felt really important (yes, I can dream).
Not much in the pipeline for the coming week. A bunch of us girls are planning on having a beauty day at the high-class salon here (imagine, a full massage for only $10!) on Saturday. Alan's birthday is on Sunday and they aren't too big on birthdays here--so I'm throwing him a complete Gringo-style surprise birthday party with a bunch of our mutual friends...so that should be fun.
