So last weekend we FINALLY went on holiday, and it was great. :D We are getting very close to the 3 month mark in Honduras (!!!), which means that we need to renew our visas as each visa only lasts for 90 days. We had already decided that we wanted to visit Livingston in Guatemala, so when we were told on Thursday that we could have a 4 day weekend we quickly booked up beds for Friday, Saturday, Sunday AND Monday night and started to get very excited. We left Tela, for only the second time since August, after Anna had finished teaching on Friday and got on the bus at about 3 o'clock. The first bus from Tela to San Pedro Sula ran fairly smoothly, only being held up occasionally by big lorries and the odd street market spilling out on to the main road (standard). We got to San Pedro and changed busses at this huge shopping centre/food hall/bus station and got on a bus to Puerto Cortez, little did we know that this was to become the SLOWEST, LONGEST bus journey of all time!!!! It took us over 3 hours to reach Puerto Cortez, a journey which took less than an hour and a half on the way home, and we finally got there with just 5 minutes to catch the last bus to Omoa, where we were staying the night. We finally arrived in Omoa, tired, hungry and desperate for the loo (sorry if that's too much information)!! Omoa was soo beautiful and had the most amazingly tasty, cheap food, we could only stay for about 12 hours so we have vowed to return soon.

Our trip to the border ran fairly smoothly, the first bus we got on wasn't going where it said it was, and we only met one crazy man…giggling to himself, doing cartwheels and kissing the floor. :/ Crossing the border was really odd, we literally got off the bus and just walked across…we met some nice officials who looked at our passports and one even sang happy birthday to me in English after noticing it was my birthday in 3 weeks, I think he was very proud of himself!!! It paid off taking the time to chat the officials as we didn't encounter any of the "extra charges" that many people complain about when crossing Central American borders. After getting our exit stamps, my passport is starting to fill up already, we found a minibus to take us all the way to the ferry port. The driver was obviously very excited about having to English girls on his bus, and we got front seat treatment and had some funny conversations in broken Spanglish…we are getting very good at Spanglish, I use all the Spanish words I know and then quickly fill in the wordsI don't know with English, hoping no one will notice!! We found that lots more people in Northern Guatemala spoke English, we think it is probably influenced by neighbouring Belize, and we met another nice man who offered to take us to Livingston (our final destination), we politely refused and jumped on the official boat across the bay.

We had FINALLY arrived in Livingston, we were hot and tired, and after finding our hostel we headed to a local hotel/restaurant, which looked out on to the bay, to drink orange juice, eat brownies and float in the water on big rubber rings. It was heaven. Unfortunately about 4/5 hours after we arrived it began to rain, and then preceded to rain for the next 48 hours which kind of ruined our plans to soak up the sun and visit the local waterfall and white sand beach. Luckily the place we were staying at was totally awesome (really very nice, for those older readers among us) and we still managed to have an amazing weekend. The hostel was made up of lots of tree house type cabins, and the main social room was built half in the rainforest which meant we saw lots of interesting birds and blue crabs. At the hostel we also met loads of other travellers and got to hear all about their trips around Central America, where they've been and where they're going which has made us even more excited for our travelling on long weekends and next summer. We are planning our route around Central American as you read (unless you're reading in the middle of the night our time, in which case we will be soon).

Over the course of the weekend we were told at least a billion trillion times how beautiful our eyes were, it's really odd because out here everybody has the same dark brown eyes and there is almost no variation, and along we come with our blue and green eyes and we really stand out, but it's a compliment all the same.

Also, as a quick side note, it is my birthday in exactly TWO WEEKS and I'm very excited!! :D

P.s The photo is of where Anna and I ate our breakfast in O

More updates soon, lots of love