Counting down to blastoff!

In less than 48 hours.....


I get to be with one of the best people in the world.

Soon after that three crazy best friends get to join together after 7 months now...



Then the following day I get to see my other super fantabulous soon to be Latin American friend also....



Saturday I'm looking forward to all of these people hopefully:











Then following a crazy weekend with lots of fun hopefully... I get to see these loved ones:







Then on Friday they come: :)I miss them.







Then for the whole family Christmas:



The best Bingo caller on this planet! Love you Grandpa.



And later with lots of other great friends, I get to reunite with a few like this (minus a few :( ):

Things I DON'T do in the United States

Things I don’t do in the United States:
 Have vendors come onto the bus selling everything you can imagine
 Drink water from a plastic bag
 Buy milk that’s in a box
 Buy eggs that are in cartons on a shelf
 Pay $6+ for cereal (here you do what you have to)
 Pay $6 for a box of six granola bars
 Ride in taxis that are ready to fall apart, don’t have a working speedometer, or are always driving on empty
 Ride in the back of pickup trucks and nearly never wear my seatbelt
 Spend Thanksgiving on an island in the Pacific Ocean called Amapala

 Touch baby hammerhead sharks 

 Watch a sting ray get filleted




 Make friends with 10 year olds who walk you around at night and take you hiking up a volcano (another one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done)


 Climb a volcano and see three countries at the same time from the top: Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador (INCREDIBLE)




 Swim in the Pacific Ocean

 Go to a mermaid cave

 Ride in cute little taxis in small towns

 Get on fun party buses. I love the music here.
 Ride a motorcycle without a helmet (so dumb I know)
 Wear matching shoes, jewelry, and clothes that are the same color…so Honduran
 Get to go to outdoor Christmas festivals with vendors, lights, live music, ride a little train with 2 skinny fake looking Santas in the middle of December and not freeze
 Dance on salsa on stage for a free t-shirt  Not that I wouldn’t in the States too!
 Go to the airport to exchange money
 Pay an extra surprise $35 of airport tax to be paid only in cash (Glad I know about it now!)
 Stick out like a sore thumb everywhere I go and try to get ripped off by some
 Hug students as much as I get to here because I don’t have to be afraid of lawsuits 
 Go shopping before church, buy beer for Christmas gifts, and end up bringing a 12pack to church in my back pack! LOL! What a heathen I am.
 Sing Nsync’s “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” in Spanish at church! So great!
 Make a list of things I want to do and eat at Christmas break because I miss them
 Make a Christmas chain that now says I have 3 days until I’m in Michigan for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!