Rainy Saturday adventures in Roatan

So I've had some crazy adventures over the last few days.. we have several resident geckos living in our house and I'm ok with them.. I don't love them, but whatever, they eat the bugs.. but last night we had a little run-in. Its been rainy and gross for the last 2 days, and my bed is wet because it leaks above my bed. So I was about to get into bed last night and I had changed the sheets to relatively dry ones and then got ready to crawl into bed and heard this nasty gecko sound, and something fell from the ceiling above me... and landed on my pillow. Thankfully it was not the whole gecko I guess.. but it was either his poop or his tale. He was just chillin out above me (minus his tale mind you..) and there was nasty gunk on my pillow. So I cleaned it up and changed the pillow case again, but I slept in fear that either the gecko would fall on me or poop on me again in my sleep!
 Which fast forward to just now.. I was chillin on  my bed hanging out with the girls and I flopped over so I was laying in my bed.. and when I sat up I realized the gecko had pooped on my bed again.. and I laid in it!! NASTY! I had gecko poop on my bed, my hand and in my hair! Yuck! I just wiped it off and got it out of my hair the best I could because I just showered and my hair hadn't even dried yet.. so I couldn't really justify showering again.

And so aside from my gecko adventures today, I have had some other adventures. Its been pouring rain (same torrential downpour as a few weeks ago) for 2 days now. It is the perfect excuse to stay inside and just chill, which is great! I poked away at some of my schoolwork this morning, but then when the rain let up a bit around lunch the girls wanted to walk down the beach to a restaurant we heard was good. So we set out on what was supposed to be a 10 min walk up the beach.. but turned into a hour long adventure to this restaurant. Since it had just rained, tons of little streams that carry sewage out of the Colonia and neighbouring areas were twice the size they normally are. Usually you can just hop over the nasty streams and continue on your walk down the beach but these were sometimes huge gushing streams that we had to wade through... yes, I know, wade thru a poopy stream.. GROSS. We got to several places along the way where we had to scale some big rocks and another spot where I came within 10 feet of several big nasty vultures! Vultures are totally as big, nasty and scary as you imagine!! When we finally got to the restaurant we were starving and thankfully the food was great. Then on the way home, we decided to grab a cab rather than take the beach back. But we jumped in a little 'collectivo bus' - which is a 15 passenger van that looked like it belonged in the scrap yard, full of sweaty Honduran workers and it took us up into the Colonia and all over (half way along its normal route and some unexpected side routes as well) and eventually we got out somewhat near our house and walked the rest of the way home. So in the end, our whole trip up the beach and back was quite the adventure! :)
Hopefully the power and internet will hold the evening and that it will clear up for tomorrow. We have planned a girls night of watching movies and eating popcorn.. because what else do you do when its pouring!
Here are a few shots of our house and the sunset that we took during a break in the rain..