The Four Country Dash

Well, it would seem Honduras wanted to hang on to us a little longer. We packed up and headed into La Ceiba for a 4 in the morning plane check in. You should know that things are not well when you are the first to arrive at the airport...well next to the Aus/Brit couple that lost their luggage en route to Honduras the week before. We re-united, exchanged stories, found out that they recieved their things 3 days after they arrived and had a beautiful time on Roatan. We chared divign stories and waited for the airport to open. We checked in, grabbed a drink, went through security and embarked onto the plane, were settled in ready for take off when they announced that we must now disembark from the plane....it was broken and the flight is canceled.
Overall, we were in better shape than most on the plane that had to catch connection to get home for work or into the U.S. Most people got transfered and it left five of us, the couple that had lost their luggage( Stevie and G) and Veronica from New Zealand. Apparently Mexico City and Belize City are not hot spots for Taca Airlines. It was a very long morning of convinving them it was their duty to find us a hotel on Easter Sunday, and finally with much chagrin they agreed. After arriving at the Gran Paris Hotel we succumbed to our fate, drinking cervesa and swimming in the pool with some very interesting people. Stevie works for the UN in Mexico city and G is with the British Embassy, Ronnie was a nurse making her way up to Chincago and onward to Inidianapolis.

The whole incident (although not as nasty after the relaxation by the pool and such) did set us back a day. Which meant that we had to do a four country dash to make our way to Cozumel, catch our dive and keep our reservation. So starting at 4 in the morning we headed back to the airport, flew to San Pedro Sula, on to El Salvador, into Belize City ( to pick up the wedding video) caught a bus to Chetumal in Mexico before landing in Playa Del Carma and catching the ferry to Cozumel...if it sounds tiring it was. Things went very smoothly and we land into our B and B to find out that it is beautiful. So we can relax for a few days before we head home to the real world and our real lives :)

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