Me llamo Don Ruinas

Well I had a really cool weekend. I left Saturday morning to Copán to go see the Mayan Ruines. They thought it was going to take like 3-4 hours but it only took two and half. So that was good. It was a really easy ride compared to Mishualli y Mindo, Ecuador.... but was just as beautiful and interesting in a different way. Saturday we just checked into our hotel (it was pretty nice and it had a hot water heater.... they had what I call "An American Shower") and then went to some kind of bird something or other. They had
all kids of parrots, owels, tucans, etc... It was pretty cool. The bird place was really nice. I think some American invested like $500,000 into the place. It was pretty nice, but they need better juices in their resteraunt--- I don´t want to drink lemonadede made from a mix once I traveled all the way to stinking Copán, Honduras... get with the program gringo! But it was pretty cool. They let you hold a lot of the birds and suprisingly none of them bit me unlike when we were in the jungle of Ecuador. Saturday night we (Mark, Yanira, and Yanira´s mom) went back to our hotel. It was a lot cooler than your Best Western in the states. It had hammocks and the whole shebang... the weather was perfect and it was probably like 72 during the day and 67 at night. Mark and I had a pool (billiard) tournament... we are currently tied 3 to 3. Saturday was a lot of fun. We also did a little driving around the town of Copán. It was a pretty cool town-- coble stone streets and mayan looking people made for a good combination.

Today (Sunday) came around and we took off to the Mayan Ruines (of course after I had my American Shower). The ruines were awesome. I tried to take enough pictures, but the pictures do not really do much for the significance and unique part of history that I got to walk on, see, kick and spit on (j/j about the kicking and spitting part-- don´t turn me into the Honduran
government). But it was just amazing how these ancient people designed their temples and living areas. But what was even more interesting is that there was literally tons of of un-excavated ruines throughout the area. The ruines are everywhere. We walked through the woods and there were all kinds of un-excavated areas in the woods with no telling what lies under them. I was really glad I got to see the ruines. My first impressions of the ruines from the moment we approached the first Estela (statue thing with the image of one of their gods carved into it) was the passage in Romans 1 where Paul said, "For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." The temples and Estelas where so detailed and made with immense precision... it is amazing to be able to see slightly into an ancient civilization that reigned mightily in their day and now nothing remains of them but their ruines.

I think the photo link worked last time for one of the other blogs... so I will try it again. If you want to see my pictures from this last weekend you can go to: http://lsu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2047736&l=ef06a&id=23424351

Last but not least a little something special for all those who are LSU fans. I went to eat in a little resteraunt in Copán and they had a collection of all kinds of things that I guess tourist had brought them or that they had gotten from the states. One of the things they had collected was license plates. Well hanging on the wall somewhere in Copán, Honduras at a little place called Las Carnitas was this LSU license plate. GEAUX TIGERS!