Power Outage

What a slacker i've been!  Several days since my last post.  So much to tell about!  

Jordan's Stack of Books

Jordan & Everett's School

The kids are getting adjusted to school and we are finally in somewhat of a routine. 

 Jordan is still getting used to the ways of his classroom - how to know what is for homework etc...  he has a ton of books and a ton of supplies.One of the strangest things 

on his school supply list was Toilet Paper!  The things we take for granted huh?  Jordan said when you want to go to the restroom you have to ask for that Bathroom Pass and then you are given Toilet Paper and Hand Soap.  Last week he had a "uniform inspection" 

and he was sent home with a Warning Notice!  He was out of standards!  Missing from his handsome little get up was: a belt and the appropriate socks.  He is required to wear black dress shoes and we had no idea that there were specific requirements for the socks so we put him in black dress socks - can you believe that the socks are supposed to be white athletic socks?   The warning was sent home for the FATHER to sign.  All of the paperwork that comes home requiring a signature asks for the Father's signature!  Jordan almost missed recess on Friday for failing to bring back his weekly report - we of course had no idea that this was to be signed and returned each week.  

Street View

 Street View

The square downtown

Sunday around 9AM the power went out and we had no idea why.  It appeared as though it was out in the whole neighborhood so we decided to go site seeing in down town Comayagua.  There are beautiful old buildings there, a really pretty cathedral and that's 

Cathedral Downtown
Comayagua

about it.  The streets were quiet.  It was almost lunch time when we found a really nice little restaurant/gift shop set back in an awesome courtyard.  It appeared to be closed but when we peeked in the gate, the owner came out and asked us to come in.  She was a beautiful woman who spoke great English and of course Spanish too.  Turns out she is a native of Comayagua but shares her time living in Cleveland, Ohio for 4 months and then 3 months here and so on.  She explained to us that power was out in all of Honduras because there were Political Conventions of opposing parties going on.  The electric company is run by the government so to minimize viewership they turned off the power to prevent the people of Honduras from watching it.  Power would most likely be out until 4pm that day she told us.  Wow - what a Democracy.  She was able to be open and fix us lunch because she had a gas stove.        

We finally got a vehicle after a month of a rental car - a 2000 Ford Explorer with new tires and 105k miles.  Sounds crazy but this car is quite the luxury!  Vehicles are hard to come by here and all of them cost a fortune.  We got lucky and bought this one from an American guy that was working on the base.  

Our New Ride

We also got a kitchen table!  The table was handmade by a local artisan here that makes beautiful furniture.  It is made of Honduran Mahogany wood and is super heavy.  Next in line is a handmade desk from the same guy. 

Our tiny new table

Walking Stick on our porch!