Bombs, birthdays and building.....#1 bombs

I’ve had perhaps one of the best weeks that I’ve had in months! How I love vacation time. This week I went to Tegus to get my residency card. I went on Wednesday lunch time and went with Elizabeth – Israel’s sister who is here visiting (Israel is my new boss and he and his wife Hollie are v good friends of mine here). Anyway, I drove in my car, which gave me lots of time to get to know Elizabeth, and we met up with Marlon in Tegus as I hadn’t seen him for ages. We went to various places in Tegus to show Elizabeth the city a bit, whilst waiting for Jorge to finish work ( we were staying at his house). We met up at the cinema but there were no movies in English on at the time we arrived! As we were deciding what to do I got a message from Israel telling me what the news on tv was saying...and it wasn’t good! Basically, saying that they were going to close the roads with protest marches and put bombs under the bridges and that we shouldn’t come back til it was safe! So that changed our plans a bit and we went to the supermarket to get some food. People continued to call us and everyone was in a panic cos we were in the city and not sleepy Sigua. Elizabeth and I went back to Jorge’s house where we stayed up til 3am playing cards, chatting and watching movies...was great. We weren’t worried about anything going on! The next morning we woke up to....nothing! All was peaceful so I went to the government Migration office and picked up my residency card...not a problem! The universities were closed and so Jorge was able to hang out with us....was great fun. There were no buses running and so my friend Jaime called to ask if I could give his housemate a ride back to Comayagua as he couldn’t get a bus. I knew this guy and so we met up with him and got on our way. Obviously it wasn’t going to be straight forward. Just as were leaving the city the road was closed. The protest marchers were....protesting? It was all peaceful, but we were told they would open the road at 4pm – which meant an hour and a half wait. Then they said 6pm. We decided to wait til 4 and then if it still didn’t open we’d turn back and try again the next day. It opened by 3.30pm and we had a v slow drive home. From door to door by the time we’d dropped everyone off (and stopped for ice-cream to break up the journey it took me 5 hours (instead of 2). We got to know Gabriel (Jaime’s housemate) and he was great fun so the journey was simply hilarious! Was great to get out of Sigua, be with different people and relax and have fun!