Valle de Angeles

While we were in Tegucigalpa we (courtesy of Karla & Jose) made a little day trip to Valle de Angeles.  Which is a little tourist town close to Teguc.  They rented a mini-bus and driver for the day so we could all go together (Karla, Jose, Luis Gustavo, Abuela, Ana, Olga, Marco, Maria, Cooper, & I).
(Olga is the lady that keeps house and takes care of Luis Gustavo.... she is like part of the family.)

We parked the bus and walked into the center of town.  The roads are closed for a couple of blocks so there is no traffic on the roads which is nice.  The church and a park are in the very center of town with shops and restaurants bordering the square and on all the side roads too.  

We played in the park for a little bit, Maria liked the fountain.

We had lunch at a restaurant down one of the side streets and wandered back to the park to relax a little more.  Maria and Luis Gustavo ran around a gazebo...

I took some pictures of Ana, Olga, & Karla's family...

Jose held my purse...

Abuela hid from the camera....

and Cooper hung out in the ergo...

Marco and I went into a few little shops and eventually got Maria a wooden folding chair that's pretty cool.

Then we went and got back in the bus and drove to meet a friend of Karla's.

They know the caretaker of a property out there that has been abandoned for 10 years. 

There are play things on the property for little kids and they thought that the kids would enjoy it.... which they did.

Marco and the other guys there played a game of soccer.

Maria LOVED the houses.  She would pretend that she was cooking for us.

Cooper LOVED the swing.  He would bounce his little legs up and down with excitement.

After we said our goodbyes to Karla's friends we headed back to Tegucigalpa.... but not before making two more stops.

We stopped for corn...

grilled corn. boiled corn. fried corn pancakes sprinkled with sugar. mini corn tamale's. and a drink that tasted like warm sweet liquid cornbread.

Maria slept thru most of the corn stop.... she woke up just in time to have a piece of corn on the cob.

Then we swung by a little town that had a lagoon with a boardwalk 3/4 of the way around it.  

Karla told me that during the day the turtles that live there come up and bask on these little sandbanks, but we got there too late and they had all gone to bed for the night.

It was a great day.  I REALLY enjoyed seeing Valle de Angeles and want to go back.  There were so many little shops that we didn't get to see which looked so interesting.