Twenty Countries in Seven Months: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

February 16, 2013

Hey,
I’m in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. I am sitting on the beach in a hammock right now. We are staying in a great town and our hotel is awesome. Its right on the beach and has a super cool pool. There is a talking parrot and two cute dogs. On Friday we went zip-lining, we saw seven howler monkeys sitting in the tree as we passed by. It was really fun and the zip-lines were really long. With us on our canopy tour was also a couple from Santa Rosa. Then, on Saturday we went to Playa Hermosa and got surfing lessons. It was awesome Dad and I stood up, and Lilia and Mom had fun also. Mimi decided she didn’t really like it so instead she played in the sand. We hung out all day and walked along the beach. Along the beach were little shells that had little snails like things in them. The spiral shells send out little antenna and wing like things whenever the wave comes in, it looks like little aliens. They were so cool and there were millions of them, all along the beach when the wave went back you could see little alien things everywhere, it was really funny. Today we hiked up a cliff overlooking San Juan, on the cliff is a giant Jesus statue. The hike is straight uphill and it is really windy, but worth it. Up at the statue you can see two beautiful bays and the mountains of Costa Rica. The statue of Jesus was huge, from the bottom you could barely see his head. Then we came back to our hotel and ate lunch. Tomorrow we are headed to San Jose, Costa Rica to meet the YWAM team. After we want to go see a cloud forest and then stay in a bungalow over the water on a little island.