Copán Ruinas with the fam!

Well, what an awesome week this has been! A week ago I picked up mom and Robin in San Pedro Sula (where we are now again), I randomly and luckily found this great B&B called Los Molinos where we are staying and the owner, Luis, took great care of us last weekend and again today, providing airport pick-up, dinner transportation, the whole nine yards. So, last week, Sunday morning we all three caught a local direct bus to Copán Ruinas where we checked into our home for the week--Casa de café. For me, the week has been drapped in luxury, starting with the accomodations. We had a wonderful view from the yard area of the B&B, were served a delicious breakfast every morning, had our own private room with maid service, all the agua pura we could drink (which was a lot), plus two very friendly and entertaining Inn keepers (the son and nephew of the couple that own the place, the couple themselves are on vacation right now in Ecuador...). Copan Ruinas is a very mellow, tranquile, (touristy), cute and clean place to be. It was the perfect choice. We went on Monday to a Macaw bird park a couple of kilometers out of town where we were given a wonderful tour, talked to birds (had them laugh at us acuatlly, the birds I mean), and then swam in the stream running through the park. (We also returned the next two afternoons to swim here, since it was so hot and our tickets were good for three days). Tuesday we went to the Ruinas of Copán, the ancient Mayan city driving most of the tourism in the area. We found them quite interesting but wished the US $15 we paid to get in would have let us come back the next day also, we think we would have appreciated them even more--the tour the first day, experiencing it ourselves the second...but you can´t have everything I guess. The best day of the week was Thursday when we took a trip with a tour company that included an hour ride in the back of a pick-up up into the mountains where we went to a large coffee finca, had coffee with the duena of the property, were given a tour of the production area of the finca, then went to another section of the finca where we took a little walk to a waterfall and then a horseback ride through the country (galloping half of the time!), we were then fed this delicious homecooked meal of comida typica, stopped at the hot springs on the way back to town and returned to town in the back of the truck under the moonlight...ironically enough, we forgot the camera...
I´m sorry to do this, but I´m a little pressed for time right now (and typing on a sticky keyboard, so it´s taking longer), other things we enjoyed were playing (hours) of cards in several different locations, eating at nearly every restaurant (it seemed) in town, one night of salsa dancing, a quick morning trip on a chicken bus to a nearby village much less polished by tourism, a butterfly/orchid park, gin & tonics while watching the sunset, dealing with the stifling heat and humidity common to these parts, walking around town, and just enjoying each others company!
For me, I have been most struck by the fact that Honduras seems more expensive than Guatemala-at least as a traveler, and could also see the direct affect of tourist money coming into Copán, most prices have gone up 50-60% in the last two years simply because of us foreigners...also, it´s been funny getting used to the higher number values things cost in lempira (100 lempira VS 50 quetzales or 5$), but I´m getting better. Overall, I´ve had a great time sharing a week of my reality (even though it was a week of high living for me) with my mother and am even more excited my sister will be stayin another 2 weeks. We are planning on going to the Bay Islands/beaches tomorrow (for my birthday...) and are also hoping to be able to take a tour of the wild, unpopulated jungle area of Honduras called La Moskitia, wish us luck. There are like a million other things I could say or write, but I have to go!