Honduras - Day 12

With the end of our trip quickly looming, we struggle to figure out how to leave with something in place for the bookstore's POS. We decided that we're going to try and get the inventory into their existing Quickbooks system but we keep having the nagging issue of the quantities not being imported.

After breakfast, Ernesto went off to do children's ministry for the day. I stayed in the room getting the script to update the quantities based on the transactions that they were keeping track of by hand.

For lunch, we decided to go to the beef stew place. It's been awhile, so we were eager to have the stew. Unfortunately, they didn't have stew today. Instead, they had this marvelous chicken dish. Linshuang and I just inhaled it it was so good.

When we were done eating, we asked if we could take a picture of them. We talked about how it was some of the best food we had in Honduras. It was all kind of silly. I started talking about how I would love to buy them up and start a restaurant in the states. As we talked, that idea began to solidify. We got their recipe for the two of their chicken dishes along with exchange of some methods of communication.

Donna, the cook and the owner shared that her mom and one of her brothers were actually out in jersey. Her mom works at a carwash in Morristown! What a coincidence. If I were to do this, pretty much the only thing keeping me back would be capital. The one thing that every business needs. I need to pray about this more and think about the ramifications if this is something that I really want to do. It may not happen right away, but it may one day.

After lunch, Linshuang and I went shopping for a little bit. Nothing really intrigued us at any of the stores. For the quality, the clothes were actually pretty expensive.

Then it was off to the office. I worked on trying to get Quickbooks to import the inventory, but it still wasn't accepting the quantities. I wasn't there for a long before the power went out. I headed over to the office to hang out with Linshuang.

The office didn't have any power either, but I continued to work on my laptop for a bit. As I was working, Juan tried to teach Linshuang how to properly pronounce todo. I was able to pick it up on my third try without really paying attention. They were laughing at Linshuang because her todo sounds like toro in Spanish.

We waited for training to come around, but the power was out so we called it a nite. We headed back to the Hotel which was running off of generated power. Usually, Linshuang and I sit at the bench outside our doors. Today, we decided to do something a little different and sat on the sofa on the second floor. It just wasn't the same as the bench. The view was different and the sofa kind of smelled a bit.

We had dinner and I managed to get out to the internet cafe and blog a bit. I chatted with Ben for a bit. It's been good to periodically connect to people I know and care about every once in awhile. Reminds me of home.

I went back to the hotel and worked more on the importing. Some stuff isn't working right and I don't know why.

Keep praying for the POS. We need to have something set up by the end of the week.