San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua

Been a while since my last post...so I´m going to try to catch up.

Roatán was beautiful. Nice island feel, and the people were really friendly. We met 2 guys from the states (Spencer and Brian) that we pretty much hung out with the whole time. They invited us over for mojitos(Spencer makes a hell of a drink!) and a few mojitos (and a couple of monkey lalas) later and we pretty much didn't part ways until we all left. Dive buddies, drinking buddies. We had a great time. We went on 3 dives...Amazing coral. Got to see a hawksbill turtle and a green moray eel along with the plethora of other fish that were swarming around us. The last dive we did (Texas) was a deep drift dive on the side of a wall. The current was so strong...we drifted about 2 miles during the dive! Probably one of the best I've ever done.


So...off the island and quickly jumped buses to Granada, Nicaragua. Every hotel was totally booked full! There is a Poetry Festival going on all week that we had no idea about. We were able to finally find a room after asking at bunches of hotels and many of the front desks calling many more. The festival included poets from around the world but everything we got to hear was in Spanish (even a poet from Germany was speaking Spanish). Needless to say, I couldn't understand any of it. So sad. But that is why Lils and I headed to San Juan del Sur...Spanish 101.


So now we are in San Juan. Got here 2 days ago. Start 2 weeks of Spanish tomorrow. We are staying in a house owned by the school instead of doing the home stay option. Gives us a bit more freedom. Everyone there is really friendly and I am really excited to start classes.


Had a surf lesson today. Amazing!! I had so much fun! Our teacher was totally helpful and hot (which also helps, right?). Both of us got up and rode a few waves. I can definitely see why people get hooked. I feel like the first time I went skiing. Now I just have to learn how to catch waves on my own without somebody there telling me when to paddle and what waves to catch.


Off the the beach and a beer!