Life's just one big adventure

So we went to the Honduras v Canada World Cup Qualifying football match last night in the stadium in San Pedro Sula. It took me a long time to find enough tickets for us all to get there, but it all worked out. Deb, Nicole and Brian went in a car with Lidia and I took my car with Amanda, Kike, Jaime and Zuko. Lidia and the other teachers left early so as to get seats. The game started at 7.30 and Zuko's exam finished at 4pm - journey takes about an hour and a half to get there! We were cutting it fine. So they agreed to save us seats.
Deb and Nicole

Kike drove my car - he is way faster than I am on those roads. The plan was also to drive back after the match (against popular opinion that it's just not safe to drive that road after dark!)

So we set off. Half hour into journey we all start smelling something that is not right with the car...! We stop at a gas station (sorry - petrol station) check the car out, can't work it out...carry on a bit.

45 mins into the journey we pull over onto the side of the road as the car will no longer drive! It is starting to get dark! In this country it's not good to stop at the side of the road, and people don't stop to help you either. Unheard of. The clutch or transmission had gone.

Now here is where we know God was looking after us because we all pile out of the car, everyone relaxed, no-one stressed, when a guy pulls over in his pick up. Unheard of, especially as it was getting dark. Offers to drive back to the gas station, get a tow rope, come back and tow us back to the gas station!! I just had to pay his gas - all £5 of it! So then he offers to take us part of the 45 minute journey we still had to the stadium. So we climb into the back of the truck, as we pull away he notices a bus that would take us all the way...we jump out of the truck and run to the bus...amazing the bus just happened to be there right then.

We made it to the game 15 mins before the start - no queues left, just stroll in. The others had saved us seats - great seats. They'd sat there for about 2 hours. Kike had bought the face paint, we had our Honduras jerseys on so we enjoyed the game. We were in the cheaper seats, which meant all the 'enthusiastic' people around us - i.e. the cheering, jumping crowd! Was hilarious!! The guys looked after us and protected us completely so we were perfectly safe. Honduras won!!

(Behind..)Jaime, Kike (In front) Zuko (wiped his paint off cos was itchy!), Amanda and I


Kike and Jaime

Then they saw a guy from church who had room in the back of his pick up. So we sat in the back for the 2 hours home. Got home at midnight!
Us all in the truck on the way home - windswept and tired but enjoying fact we won (Apart from Amanda maybe - she's Canadian!)

We got to the game safely, saw the game and got home safely. Kike, Jorge, Amanda and I drove back in Kike's truck today to get my car and tow it back - amazingly enough it still had doors, wheels etc. Just as we left it.

Life is definitely not boring here. I wouldn't have it any other way! I LOVE it!!! (though maybe not the large amount I am going to have to pay to mend my car)