No Electricity

So we have had a ton of storms and heavy rain the past two weeks and apparently our power station flooded and a bunch of power poles broke so we hae not had power since last Sunday morning. When it rains a lot, the water also stops working because the pipes get clogged with dirt so we have only had water occasionally for the past week. And when it starts working again it is black with dirt...makes for a nice time. We came to Juticalpa today which is about an hour away to use the internet and have a little sanity. Living without power in a big city where everything is electric is not a lot of fun. The supermarket has a generator and a couple other places do but for the most part nobody can cook unless they happen to have a gas stove or an outside wood oven. There is one restaurant that has a generator and it is always packed. On a happy note, we went to the birthday party of our twin host nieces last weekend out in the country. They turned one and wore awesome tiras and butterfly wings...so cute. We left at 8 and got home at 7, a very long day but it was relaxing and we met a lot of people. The man´s house it was at had cattle, pigs, and lots of different fruit trees. He also gets endangered animals from the government and breeds them so they can be released in the wild. Very interesting, he had quite a few animals and a ton of birds. The next day we went to our host uncle´s house up in the mountains a little ways out of Catacamas and it was beautiful! He practically lives in the jungle and has monkeys and other animals. We had to cross a river to get there and the bridge had broken due to the heavy rain. It was still possible to walk accross it, but not to drive accross it. It was made of concrete and basically cracked in numerous places and is now different levels. A lot of bridges have broken, rivers have overflowed and ruined roads, and people´s houses have washed away. Rain does a lot of damage here mainly because things are not well constructed and cannot take heavy rain. It is really sad. Hopefully we will have a break from the rain so things can be repaired and people can get back to their lives.