Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Nicaragua and Costa Rica Trip Day 2

Today we swam in beautiful pool at our hotel.  Then we checked out and went to our rental house.  We went on a boat tour of the isletas of lake Nicaragua, had lunch and then went grocery shopping.  Grocery shopping in Nicaragua leaves much to be desired.  We are so spoiled.

 Balcony at our hotel Plaza Colon.

Beautiful view at the hotel
 Night view of hotel
 Boat tour of the Isletas in Lake Nicaragua.  The volcano eruptions have created lots of little islands in lake Nicaragua.


One of the little islands has 4 monkeys living on it.  They can't get off the island because monkeys can't swim.
  Church in the central plaza in Granada.


 Inside the church.
 Garret striking a pose.
 Inside our house.  The middle part of our house had a courtyard with palm trees and a small swimming pool.  It was weird to have open space right in the middle of our house.  When it rained, it was raining in our house.
The outside of our house and our lovely car.  When Kirt and I went on our cruise in January we had a stop in Limon Costa Rica.  We met a tour guide company owner named JJ.  Kirt has been in contact with him since we left and had arranged to rent a 12 passenger van from him.  He was supposed to meet us at our rental house on Tuesday morning.  Unfortunately he wrecked his van 2 weeks before we were to go on our trip.  He had arranged to borrow a van from a friend.  He was at the Nicaraguan border Tuesday morning at 4am with this borrowed van, but they would not let him across the border because the van did not have the proper paperwork.  So he arranged for us to rent this wonderful van that screams "tourist" while we are in Nicaragua.  He is supposed to meet us at the border with the borrowed van next Monday when we go to Costa Rica.  
 Being serenaded at the restaurant that we went to lunch.




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