Roatan - Day 35

Having Wednesday off this week really threw me off and I felt like we had to go to the clinic today for work.  Fortunately we had a play day instead.  B, J and I met up at Carambola Gardens this morning and wandered around a tropical garden paradise.  We saw chocolate trees, cashew trees, mahogany trees, and all kinds of flowers.  I even hiked to the top of the mountain, which yielded an AMAZING viewpoint of some keys (smaller islands) off the main island.  It got me excited for Hawaii and all of the great hikes I will hopefully be doing there.

The rest of the day we literally sat on the beach.  We had ginormous delicious smoothies from Earth Mama’s and plantain chips for lunch on the beach.  We chatted some.  I read some.  The sun shone through the clouds some.  It was perfect… not too hot to sit there for 4-5 hours (guilty) with clouds and a cool breeze.  I’ve never seen so many ocean waves either since there usually are none (usually break at the edge of the reef).  There’s just something to hearing the waves crash on the beach.

We walked into town to find some chips for our guacamole/mango dinner and ended up running into one of our patients we saw at the clinic on our first week here.  He invited us into his store for some homemade tuna salad and hondureño coffee (he graciously gave me a Coke instead).  Little did I know I was about to eat the MOST DELICIOUS tuna salad EVER.  There’s something to be said for fresh fish.  A little lime addition always helps too.  SO GOOD.  We chatted it up for a while and then headed back to B’s place overlooking the ocean for our mango and guacamole dinner.  Finished the night off watching Transformers (my first time) with only one minor interruption due to the curtain moving unexpectedly.  After checking it out, a gecko flopped onto the floor and scurried under the fridge.  Hopefully he survived the fall…