I was tempted to stay another week but figured I could go home and get a little more situated first...it is only $220/week for daily Spanish lessons, homestay with a family including breakfast, lunch and dinner. I wonder if any of these Nicaraguan families would have enough patience and understanding to deal with a vegetarian? Anyway, it was too complicated to change my ticket at such the last minute and when I finally did get connected to Continental via skype, they said it was a 30 min wait to speak with an actual person. I didn't want to waste our last night together at an internet cafe swarming with mosquitos...so instead, we grabbed a bottle of vino blanco and stopped by Fidel's house- he promised us a ride back to Mango Rosa- but we were too late, he was in the middle of cooking dinner with his family and had raw slabs of carne in his hands...the baby waa in her pajamas and we apologized for disturbing them...a friend of his who was there and offered to call us a cab and explained once he hung up that it would be about 10 minutes and they were now charging double- $20 since it was nightime, comprenden?
We agreed, after all we didn't want a repeat of last night...and seconds later Fidel was outside ushering us into his Hilux...it then became clear that it was all a scam to get us to agree to more...Fidel charged us $10 earlier when we went scuba diving...I guess I can't blame him for being a manipulative business man.
The hotel lobby was abuzz with guests: there is a wedding here tomorrow. We headed back to our place and got the bottle in the freezer. A hot shower felt amazing...scrubbing off the accumulation of 12 hours of sunblock, salt, sweat and sand...and probably a good layer of dust/dirt from traveling these unpaved roads all day.
We were exhausted but it felt great to collapse on our large sectional couch enjoying the AC and vino :)
The next morning we woke up to birds chirping outside and the sun forcing its way through our bamboo blinds. Guess we'd better get up and enjoy our last manana in Nicaragua. We started packing (translation- threw everything into our duffle bags), showered and headed to the lobby for desayuno, cafe con leche and la cuenta. Our whole bill came to approximately $415 for all food, drinks and accomodations for 3 nights. By Nicaraguan standards this is muy caro (expensive) but we considered it reasonable...Brian got a few last minute resort photos and before we knew it, Richard was here to pick us up.
2 comments:
WHOA-- I didn't know you were veg!!
That's awesome.
PS: With your penchant for travel, you really should consider picking up climbing.
Having another facet to inject into your globe-trotting-- especially one so satisfying as mother nature's very own sport-- could be a fantastic way to add to your adventures!
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