Utila 2

Well I ended up staying for almost four weeks in Utila which is much longer than I had originally planned, but as Jonny had said to me before I went away, it was definitely the most fun month of my life! I continued my relaxed lifestyle for another week or so, just exploring the town adn doing little trips with Lals. We went bike riding one day, and snorkeling the next so it was a very relaxing couple of weeks. Then on my last week, Jonny and boys came up to join me which was also incredible fun. I greeted them all at the ferry with huge butterflies in my stomach and off clambered these four bearded boys! Jonny has shaved his head and dyed it blonde which was very strange and it took me a while to get my head around the fact that it actually was my boyfriend and not someone else! I had been staying at Lala´s house (thank you so much once again lalsy) up until this point but when the boys arrived we all moved into Alton´s accomodation again. Jonny and Iggy started their Open Water Course and Sims and Husky did their advanced so for the first couple of days I continued to top up my tan and read my book whilst they were in lessons. Husky´s birthday on Thursday so Lals took us all on a fun dive which was great fun. Chip allowed us to borrow his underwater camera so we spent a lot of time posing for some silly photos! They were great dives, it´s so much more fun going with your friends as you feel like you´ve shared something pretty special when you come back up to the surface.
Saturday was a very sad day, inevitably so. I had to say goodbye to Utila, which was beginning to feel like home, Lala and Jonny and the boys all in one day so I was a bit of a teary mess in the bus station. Luckily a very nice German guy called Lennart came over to see if I was ok and we got chatting about travels and it turned out he was heading the same way as me so we decided to stick together for a bit. It was brilliant to have someoe to talk to as it helped take my mind off things, and also he spoke a bit of Spanish which an added bonus as my thinking hat was not on particularly straight that day!
Together we hopped on a bus from San Pedro Sula where I had left the boys to Tegucigalpa which is the Honduran capital, and where we had to spend a night to break up our journey, and then on to Leon the next day. We were intending to get a bus that would take us all the way from Tegicugalpa to Leon, but unfortunately it was full so we ended up catching three separate chicken buses - extremely hot, sweaty and dusty - so we were both very relieved to arrive in Leon, check into a very nice hostel called Bigfoot and have a nice cold shower!

Utila, Honduras