Today, our main event, or fiasco, was a coffee plantation tour. I didn't do a whole lot this morning when Liz was in school except look into booking our tickets to Copan, Honduras, to which we are going on Saturday. The afternoon was a trip back down the mountains to a coffee plantation. I think that the driver had good intentions, but the whole thing was kind of a mess. There was nothing that worked or was clean in the car that he came to pick us up in. There was no speedometer, a seat belt in the back was not working, you could barely see out of the window because it was cracked and also there was a sun shade sticker on it that covered most of the front except for a small foot wide slit to see through. Our driver got lost on the way there, so it took an extra half hour of driving to find the place. He decided to pass a bus on a blind curve right when another car was coming from the other direction and we narrowly avoided a bad situation, and he was so slow to do anything we needed to get done was part of the tour. The coffee plantation people didn't expect us, we had to search for a guide for another half hour, and we ended up lingering at the place for another half hour for some unknown reason when the tour was over. When we finally got the guide ready to go, things got a little bit better. The tour was fun and we learned about how they prepared and grew the coffee on the plantation. They had a 100 year old gigantic drying unit for preparing the coffee beans for shipping. They also, in the past, produced sugar from cane, but for the last 10 years, the farm hasn't produced sugar and the cane is left to grow wild. We also saw a rubber tree farm and collected some sap from the rubber tree. It was a very long day and we are quite tired now. It's off to bed.
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