"On Easter we're all fish!"

Having Nathan, my big brother, here all week was awesome, we got to have adventures on all types of public transportation in Honduras,
1. Rapiditos/busitos(15 passenger vans that they shove 30 people in),  this is a video Nathan took of one soo full they broke the door off!

2. Tuktuks/mototaxis- My fav because you can't shove too many people in one!
3. Normal taxi's -with sneaky drivers trying to trick you into paying more than normal along with some quite respectable drivers, 

A cute kid making faces as she sat on the lap of her mom

4. Normal buses - old school buses filled to triple capacity because you don't have to pay for children and always with people and their chickens(in boxes of course), and these buses stop at every single group of houses no matter how small, and you have to be prepared to stand for a few hours.

5. Un Bus Directo that stops at less little towns, and only lets random people on to sell things when the driver is hungry , hehe 

6. And once on a Luxury bus, that gave us sanitary food included in the price, and didn't stop at all until the final destination! 
So in all this adventures of public Transportation, I'll share with you one. 
       On Easter, we went on a day trip to Gracias and on the way back, we were on a normal bus and there were a few empty seats, and I thought Wow maybe because its Easter day less people are traveling....But I was wrong, we approached the river and there they ALL were, all the Hondurans filled the river swimming and enjoying the sun.  However as we passed over the bridge, **Boom** thunder and the rain started, and, well, everyone decided this was the moment to leave the river, and our bus stopped.  A huge hoard of people still dripping wet from the river poured into the bus. Men and women accompanied by their grandparents and ten children entered cramming into every crevice possible bringing with them mud and the smell of fish. Someone had put a bag dripping with muddy fishwater over the heads of the people sitting in front of us, while I had the good fortune of only having a really wet old grandma pressed against my side, and she said through her few remaining teeth to the people in front of us who were complaining about the fishwater falling on them that "La Pascua todos somos pescados!" (On Easter we're all fish!) She made me laugh.
     The vieja was just noting that everyone goes swimming here on Easter, but I thought how oddly true her statement is.  If Jesus called us to be fisher's of men, then men really have to be the fish!  I guess we have to realize that sometimes we are the dirty smelly fish that need to be caught up in the nets of Christ.  Than I guess we also have to go out with our nets and hooks of love to catch other dirty slimy smelly men and bring em to the truth.   Anyways Happy Easter to all!

Pictures from Gracias

The fortaleza

Nathan firing

He shot me!

          

Me and Nathy

The church at the center of the town!