A great start to a nice long weekend

We have had so much fun these past few days. We finally have a long 5 day weekend and we all need it so badly! I have had the time to actually sit and read a book! I read Message In A Bottle in only 2 days, I think it's a record for me! Ha ha. I even laid out on the beach! Ok not really, but I got in my swimming suit and laid on our tiny patio and read. Man, it was awesome. It was a quiet break I had been needing.

Today we went to a mall! Yeah, when I heard there was a mall, I was in shock. We walked pretty far to get there and right when we walked in, I thought I was back in the US. It was by far the smallest mall I had ever seen though, despite the fact it had 2 stories. Anyway, we all felt so odd being there. Just a few minutes earlier we had been surrounded by poverty in a third world country, and then we were in an American like mall. We felt so weird! Ha ha. After that, we went to another mall. There was some kind of play going on there in the middle of the walk way. The skits were cute, but then all of a sudden a guy in a gorilla mask wearing a white gown ran into the middle of it and started jumping on random people in the audience. Then, his gown flew open and it reveled what looked like some crazy form of lingerie with fake nipples...it was REALLY weird. Definitely different. After that experience, we went to wendys and got frosties. It was our "American" day. We really enjoyed ourselves!

The other night the power went out(it happens often) and none of us were the least bit tired. So we decided to eat grapefruit (it is a staple food here for us, all 7 of us are obsessed with it, so say the least) and granola cereal. After that we played frisbee in the living room with a plastic neon plate. Then I killed 2 cockroaches. Doing all of this in the dark is by far more fun than in light. Ha ha.

On Saturday we went to the Catholic cathedral here in Comayagua. It is in the town square and it really is a sight. We went inside and found a large room that was unoccupied. It really was beautiful and we all decided to sing acapela together. The acoustics were great and all of us really felt God's presence. We decided that we are going to make it a tradition to visit the cathedral every Saturday to sing.

We have to wake up bright and early tom orrow because we are going to be in a parade! It is Independence Day here in Honduras and pretty much the entire city will be a t the parade celebrati ng.