This weekend has been full of adventures! The first adventure was - no electricity! For over 24 hours there was no power. Which is not very fun when it is hot and humid and there is no power for the air conditioning or keeping the insulin cool. But we survived (and hopefully the insulin did too!).On a more exciting note, there was a request that I post some food so here are two pictures of some of the delicious food we are eating (not pictured is all the refried beans and tortillas we have been eating):
Steak, Noodles, and Rice
Chicken, Vegetables, and Rice
As for our adventures this weekend, we visited some Mayan Ruins (the "Ruins" part of Copan Ruinas where we are living currently). This city was the capital city for the Mayan people around 400 AD to 600 AD. It was a dynasty of 16 kings before deforestation and a lack of food forced the people to abandon the site. The ruins are not completely excavated yet, so it was not as clean as Tikal, but still very impressive:
Josiah and Emma on the King's Bed (jumping on the bed!)
Nicole and Tyler being photo bombed by Emma
Nicole checking out some ruins
The family on one of the pyramids
Emma went exploring
Josiah also went exploring
These stairs have several statues of kings. Josiah is posing like a King
Emma also posed as a Queen
The ball field is in the background - winner gets sacrificed
Picture of the ball field
Our next adventure of the weekend was to visit the Butterfly Park. The place was full of beautiful butterflies all over the place. It was amazing and quite peaceful to just sit and watch them. I tried to take more pictures, but they were to small to get many good ones. Below are the most fun ones:
The family at the Butterfly Park
Emma had one land on her hand
Josiah had one land on his head!
We also visited a Mayan Architectural Museum and went shopping for Josiah (watch for our blog on Monday night or Tuesday for something fun!). But there were no fun pictures of those adventures. Our weekend is now coming to an end and we are getting ready for week 2 of 3 in Honduras before we leave for Nicaragua (via a weekend in El Salvador).
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