Hotel Los Balcones De Leon

... of ash, and a few rocks in his shoes, he made it down quite safely.

For the afternoon, he returned to join me in my exploration of the city, and we stopped by the museum here in Leon. Like the one in Perquin, this museum was dedicated to the country´s civil war, and staffed by veterans of the war. Our tour guide here (Spanish speaking only) managed to speak slowly and clearly and yet very dynamically and told the ...

... got used to it it was quite funny to see people jumping up from their beds in fright.

Leon is a noisy city, apart from the sirens in the morning there were also a lot of fireworks being let off outside the church nearby our hostel, well they resembled more rockets than fireworks and every time one went off I jumped three feet in the air. My nerves were absolutely shot!

During our first few days in Leon Al and I spent a lot of time indoors, away from ...

... to bring Devin back to try that. Devin went boarding in Namibia, down the sand dunes, about 2 years ago (I did the 4 wheeling on the sand dunes) so I thought this would be a great addition to his boarding adventures. As we got ready to go our guide told us how to steer the board, a few safety precautions, and the leading world record speeds for the sport (68 KMP for the girls and 81 KMP for the guys). 
This is the only place in the world that does ...

... to people for the last time and say goodbye. The people were sad we were leaving, especially the families that I have build a relationship with. Emilee and I got the address to one of the families and are going to send them a picture that we took with them – they were so excited. That was basically all we did, then Diana and I walked about 3 miles around the square here around the house – that ...

... height and lack of Spanish. They were basically making fun of me in Spanish (talking really fast) and then cracking up – and I had no clue what they were saying and they knew it. When they weren’t doing that they were asking me how to say words in English, which was really cute. The next part was my absolute favorite and most precious moment….. I decided to take the empty trash bag and just walk around the playground/school area which we ...

... so crazy, words just can’t describe! BUT… I must add a very important detail. Thanks to my mom, I had a $1 emergency poncho with me in my bag! I was the only 1 out of 55 people that had any sort of rain protection… at first people made fun of me, but the jokes quickly switched to envy hahah =) Yes, I was still completely soaked, but my bag (with my camera and stuff) and parts of my t-shirt stayed dry! We got back to the house, got a towel, and sat there ...

... U.S. but it didn’t work =(. Now it’s time for bed, and all of us decided we feel like we have been here for at least 2 weeks. I can’t believe our last day of actual class at WFU was only a week ago… but we don’t say that in a bad way – I really am enjoying it – time is just not going by very fast!

Oh and p.s. the weather has been really good! Hot, but not scorching and has hardly rained! Hopefully it stays that way for the beach tomorrow!!

... Boris, to go see my property. I really want to hit the surf
but I need to wait for Boris. Booms, the local break, is going off at
4.5ft. and it's an amazing site. Hotel Chancletas is a hotel geared
towards surfers. It's a hostel style hotel with a bar/restaurant and a
really cool vibe. Owner, Shay O'brien, really did a great job ...

... this adventures in Thailand, Burma, the
Caribbean, Central and South America. This guy has some amazing
stories.....crazy stuff I wish I could have experienced. He tells me he
needs some new music for the bar and tells me his son and girlfriend
are DJ's in Spain. Right up my alley, so I give Max some mp3's and we
talk about how we can put some DJ/music stuff in Nicaragua. Once again,
another ...

I spent a good half hour in the morning arguing with the Nicaraguan immigration dude about that damn CA-4 agreement - and by the end we were basically yelling at each other. Great Spanish practice... I was right, he was wrong but it doesn't change that fact that this is basically an institutionalised con and if you don´t pay $7 you can´t enter. I eventually paid (my cause was not helped by the Polish *******s who just coughed up the money ...