Leaving Leon

After a very lovely stay in Leon, I think today we are leaving. Yesterday we spent some time taking some photos of the churches etc, and went to some of the markety type street vendors. I got some pretty cool stuff that Im pretty stoked about. In fact, I got Chella the raddest gift ever that I can hardy contain my self to say what it is. Funilly enough, at our hostel we have run into more people that we met in Playa Zonte. I swear, they are all following us. There is no escape. Sean and Jasmine from Toronto (more freakin Canadians!) are pretty nice, we have been hanging out a bit, playing some pool...stuff like that. Today on to San Juan del Sur, to hit up the surf again. There is supposed to be a really nice beach there that has white sand (not the usual black). Pretty excited to be reunited with the Pacific Ocean. For some reason, its like 10 times better than the carribean side. Not really excited about travelling today, but I guess it cant be avoided any longer. It wouldnt be so bad if we didnt have to change busses about 5 times. BUT, this is the life of travelling, and it must be done....

Living in a van down by the river

Leon is a really nice town.
Yesterday we went to the supermaket and loaded up on food. Our hostel has a really nice kitchen so we decided to be cheapies and cook our own food. So we got our snacks and supples, and now have been living very comfotrably in our new home.
No one was feeling too well yesterday, so we just took it easy, played some pool, hung out, watched tv and played poker. We made the fattest curry ever, which was tres excellente. Ah, how I miss curry.
It was a quiet day, which was kind of nice...I finally finished Memoirs of a Geisha, which was good. Now I wanna watch the movie and compare the two.

I caught up on some sleep last night which was nice. Although at 4 o'clock it the morning I was awakened by my very drunk bunk mate who was clammering around and breaking things. Since I am on the top bunk, I was swaying around a bit untill she finally passed out. Ah, fun times in the dorm room.

Zoe and I were talking about our future life plans today (again!), and I was thinking about how freakin' weird its gonna be to come back home. I mean, Im going to have to get a job. And make my self look presentable. AND, Im going to have no car, since mine has a blown head gasket and a snapped axle. And no money. This should be intresting. If anyone heres a good job offer, put in a good word for me...hahaha
Im also getting super stoked about future plans though. We're planning to travel around Canada in a van. Its gonna be SWEET. I think its every Canadians duty to travel across Canada. We also plan to swing down into the states, and maybe mexico. Infact, we might just never return.

coincidence land

Nicaragua so far has been good. We spent a couple days in managua, saw a couple films (Davinci Code, and Scary Movie 4...) and hung out.

OK. The freakiest thing happened EVER. We were sitting in the mall, actually in the food court sipping rum and cokes (yes, we are that classy) talking about our adventures. The adventures were mainly based on the guys we had met in Playa Zonte in El Salvador. We were laughing, and Sage was doing a fairly acurate immitaion of Ad´s pretending to be 'Osama Bin-Lay-den'. The conversation lulled, and I found myself looking around the foodcourt. At the Mcdonalds, there was two boys. Two white boys. I sat there thinking to myslef...hmmm, they kind of look like Jono and Ads. Oh look, he even has the same hat as Ads, oh and Jono has the same glasses...Wait, a friggen second here. IT IS THEM.

IT WAS SO WEIRD. Considering Jono was supposed to be in Mexico, and Ads was supposed to be in Panama. For some reason, they decided to stay longer in Nicaragua at the surf beaches, and we just happend to bump into them at the freakin' mall. It was odd, we all kind of just sat there and talked about how friggen random it was.
So, we had one good last night with the boys. We went to an Irishy kind of pub where this man older than my father (his grandaughter was 21) bought us drinks (sweet news for the budget traveller!). They were pretty nice, although very drunk. We all hung out for a while, then split off because Jono and Ads wanted to go to a 'boys bar'.
We met them later at this crazy club called the Matrix. It was insane, and we danced into the wee hours of the morning. Jono and Ad's had to be at the bus station really early so we said our goodbyes once again. Whos knows, we might see them again.
We also had an early bus this morning, although not as early as Jonos 4 Am. We took a mini-bus to Leon at 8 o´clock in the morning. It wasnt too long, so it was alright. We checked into our hostel called 'Bigfoot', which is pretty sweet. After our night of dancing, Gummy Bears and two hours of sleep we slept and loaded up on french fries and liquados. Not too sure if that was the best idea, since now my stomach seems to be suffering.

Tomorrow I think we are going to be looking around a bit at the churches and stuff. There is also suppsoed to be a Revolutionary Mural, and a display of 'striking black and white photos'. Should be a good time...

No fear.

So these last days have been kind of intresting.
On our last night on Utila there was a storm and it rained ALL night. And, when we woke up in the morning (at 6...yay!) it was still raining. The worst part was, onyl a week before I got sick of carrying my stupid useless poncho around, and decided to leave it in El Salvador.
Now, this is probably the stupidest thing we have ever done. As I woke on this very rainy morning, I relized that only now are we ENTERING the rainy season, and there is probably going to be a lot of rainy days to come.
So, as we are walking to the boat we are cursing ourselves...

We actually decided not to take the ferry and to take a different boat. A smaller one that locals take. It would be cheaper and we wouldnt have to pay the 'cargo price' for our surfboard.
So, this boat is small. And its raining. Poaring actually. But I figure, 'hey this cant be that bad..we might get a little wet, but its cheaper and faster than the ferry. And there is that little canopy covering us...'

So we climb aboard and we are ordered to sit in the back. The girl hands me a life jacket, which is highly unusual for Central America. I smile and take it from her and it put it down. She insists that I put it on. OK, so this is super unusual. The oceans looking pretty calm, how bad is this gonna be?
Zoe, Sage and I are all sitting on the same bench, and our driver hands us a black tarp. He instructs that we have to tuck it under our feet and over our heads. Sage exclaims that she feels like an illegal immigrant. I feel the same way. We start laughing and the girl behind me taps me on the shoulder and says in broken English 'No Fear'.
Alrighty, I was feeling OK untill right about now. NO FEAR? Should I be fearing something??
But there is no time to think because the boat pulls away from the dock.
The ride was fast, very wet and thrilling. I was very suprised at how high the waves can be in the middle of the ocean. The kids behind us were screaming in fright, and I admit I felt like screaming a bit too...OK, so I did. Just a bit. But it was still fun.

From the pier in Utilla we went to the bus station and caught the next bus to Tegus (the capital). That was a nice 7 hour ride. We stayed the night in Tegus, at a super cheap hotel and the next morning borded the 'Tica Bus' to Managua, Nicaragua. So far, its been alright. I think we might stay here a couple nights and explore a little bit.

I miss you all, and I wish I had some camomole lotion (I am itchy as shit)

I am itchy as hell.

God, I am so itchy.
I hate bugs. I hate them so much.
Especially sandflies.

But, the pain will soon be over for we are leaving tomorrow. Very early. At 6 o'clock. After the ferry, we will make our way on a very nice 7 hour bus ride back to the capital, where we will probably spend the night, and then make our way the next day to Nicaraguas capital Managua. phew. Its going to be a nice busy two days of travel. Im not really sure where we are going to go first in Nicaragua...possible Granada, or maybe to the coast to do some more surfing.

Turns out our meeting our El Salvadorian met friends isnt going to work out. Dave couldnt change his plane ticket in time, so he had to go back to Calgary. Jono busted his way up to Mexico, and Ads made is way down to Panama. Its kind of sad, we all really wanted to see them again. Oh well, back in Canada we can party once again.

Sage finished her last day of diving today. It all sounded super cool, and I think I want to take the course when I come back home and actually have money (hahaha).

Anyways, I have been on here WAY TOO LONG. I must be so popular with all these e-mails im getting lately...mahhahaha

I love sand flies....NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT

So yes, reporting from Utila, the land of sandflies and Baliadas. The first being the most horrible insect known to man, and the second being a very delicious taco like thing.
So far Utila has been good (apart from the bugs that is). Last night, we went out on the town(beign saturday and all) and danced it up in a bar near the water. We had some very nice Cran-Vodkas and watched this pyromaniac whip fire around on chains. All in all, it was a very good night. That is, apart from creepyguy in red shirt, shimmying up beside me and saying "come with me on a ride...a dancing ride" Lets just say, I never went on the ride. Infact I ran away as quickly as possibly, hiding behind dancing fire guy.

Today while sage was at her dive course (hung over and all) Zoe and I walked around the island a bit. Freakilshy enough we saw this girl that we met in Santa Cruz Guatemala. Shes kind of a freak.
We didnt end up going to the beach because you have to pay to use it. Honestly. PAY. Quite ridiculous. BUT , we walked around and found this cool old coral beach that was pretty neat.

Tomorrow, we may snorkel. We may not.

To all mothers...

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Failures at life in a vacume

OK, so not only did we miss our ferry, we missed ALL the FERRIES. When we got to the pier (20 mins early) we found out the boat had already left. Apparently, our guide book is WRONG, and the boat left a half hour earler than we thought. We ended up spending the night in a hotel beside the pier, which was pretty expensive, and away from practically any shops or restaraunts. BUT, we did find this one place to eat. We went in, and it was super fancy shmancy. Here we are, three girls wearing tank-tops, flip-flops and shorts, one with dreadlocks, the others sporting baseball caps and earings made out of coconuts. They seated us (even pulling the chair out for us, AND giving us the napking in the lap) and filled our water. We then got our menu, and were shocked to find that our 85 limperia (around 5 dollars canadian) wasnt going to get us very far. Infact, the only thing we could afford was a side of bread and a martini. BUT, being the hungry travellers that we are, we needed food. Sage began asking our waiter, if she was too old to eat of the childrens menu (the answer was yes) or that if there was any 'cheaper restaraunts' close by (no). They assured us that there was plenty of cheaper items on the menu like seafood soup (only 200 Limperia!), or fried fish (175 limperia). We then told them that between the three of us we had 285 limperia, and a couple centavos. We were pretty much losing it by then, it was pretty funny...
So, our waiter left to go talk to the manager. They very graciously gave us a fabulous meal (meat and veg, and everything) including the salad bar, and free purified water. It was possible the most/best well balanced meal that I have had in a while. AND, it did not involve beans. AND, we even used cloth napkins. AND, it was cheap. It was great.

So yes, after our little adventure at the pier and its surroundings, we fianlly made it on a ferry yesterday morning. We went to the island called Utila. So far, its been pretty nice. Our hotel is cheap and has a kitchen, which is nice because we are pretty poor.

Sage has decided to to a dive course over 4 days. She started today, its pretty exciting, she has a log book and everything. She learns how to breathe under water today (super friggen cool). Zoe and I are just spending our time hangin out and relaxing. We are going to stay here untill the end of Sages dive course and then make our way to Nicaragua on the Ticabus where we might meet the boys. So far lugging the surfboard hasnt been too bad. We are worried about it 24/7 since the boat/bus operators dont seem to know that 'be careful' or 'fragile' means. BUT, Im sure it will make it to Nicaragua OK, and we can surf once again.

I am super stoked for Nicaragua, I cant wait to go...

OK, so after three months, I fainlly fixed my blog, so ANYONE can comment, not just blogger users. Yes, I know I rule at using computers.

AH HAH!

After 20 minutes of trying to sign in on my blogger account, I have finally succeeded. Not only is his computer really slow, some of the letters are missing, and the space bar dosent work very well. Good old Honduras...

So yeah, after a nice 7.5 hour bus ride we finally arrived in La Ceiba Honduras. It is bloody hot here. We checked into a nice dodgy hotel (cockroaches, and squeaky bed included) and spent the night sweating to death or a scary sex stained matress. Yaya! This morning we missed ther god damned ferry to Utilla so we are just hangin around for the next one. We sat on the beach, which was pretty nice untill sage got proposed to. No seriously this guy and his father was trying to find some foreigner to wed. He had rings and EVERYTHING. After sage politely denied him, we got the hell out of there. Theres no way in hell any of us wants to be married, and bear some ones child in HONDURAS. So we've just been spending our time, sweating to death and drinking liquados.

I cant wait to get on the island, put down all my shit and have a drink. Im thinking pineapple rum...anyone care to join me??

party foul and a half

OK, I have decided to expand a little on what happend yesterday.
We decided on a whim to leave playa Zonte. We thought the time was good, and we had already spent alot of time there. Also Ads, Dave, Jono, and Jan (pronounced Yawn) were planning on leaving too and we were going to split the car ride to San Salvador for a last night goodbye fiesta. Turns out these three other girls that we had also met (one of them being Davids 'friend') decided they wanted to come too, so we ended up stuffing EVERYONE (including Soboro-our driver) into a car. OK people, this was 11 people, 6 surfboards, 1 body board, and 11 backpacks. It was friggen INSANE. Somehow, everyone fit and it was alright besides my door opening on a corner and almost plunging to my death. BUT, between David getting me in a right good headlock, and me gripping to his arm for life, it turned out OK. It was quite the adventure though.

So, we ended up spending the night in San Salvador at the 'Tica' Bus station. We hung out, for the last time (very sad) and slept the couple hours there was untill our bus left in the morning. My sleep might not have been that bad if my friggen roomate Jan didnt snore so loud. Also he had to get up at 230 for his bus so he was doing some loud bustiling around the room. But no worries, I had the 5 and a half bus ride to make up on my sleep.

So we finally made it hear in good old Honduras. So far so good I guess. We are staying in the capital (Telegupilia---or something like that) our hotel owner is a sexist racist, but its cheap and we are only here for one night. We just wanted to do some laundry and regroup a little bit. Tomorrow I think we are off to the Bay Islands with maybe a zip-line tour before. Hopefully my increasing fear of hights will lay low for me. Now, I want to say that we are going to be in Honduras for only a week, but we said the same thing about El Salvador and look what happened. I REALLY want to go to Nicaragua soon though, its my country destination of all C.A.

OK, I think this all for now. OH, EXCEPT I LOST MY HEADLAMP. Which totally blows, it was the last cool thing I had. Either the housekeepers jacked it (very unlikely) or its lurking in a corner somewhere taunting me.

Well, we finally did it.
We left Playa Zonte.
We are staying the night in San Sal, and then moving on to Honduras.
Should be a right good time.
more later.

sharp bastardly steps

No worries, I am alive. Just incredibly lazy.
Things have been going super well as always. We are still at Playa Zonte, hanging out at the beach and having a grand old time.

Yesterday we took another trip to San Salvador. Our plan was to hang out and shop and then meet up with everyone else later to go to a movie and then go clubbing.
The plan fail. I have decided that men suck at keeping plans. Our plan was to meet at FIVE at the movie theatre, and when NINE rolled around, we got sick of the mall and headed back to our hotel in playa Zonte.
At 430 this morning I was jumped on by a very drunk David who was laughing and saying 'where were you guys???'. Turns out they CHANGED malls, and thought that we would magically know this. Ahhhh, MEN. But, its all right, we all make stupid drunk mistakes sometimes...

Today the boys are nursing horrible hang overs (HAHA---god is punishing them) and everyones just relaxing and chilling out. Zoe and I decided to come to La Liberdad to do emaily things, eat some street meat and look for a hat for Zoe. Its bloody hot here. Im def going back to Playa Zonte, going for an ocean swim, and then going poolside. Maybe read a little Memoirs of a Geisha?

Speaking of books, I've been reading this one called 'A million little peices' and it was GREAT. Really messed up, and scary and depressing, but really good. I highly recomend it. ANYWAYS, I dont really have any exciting news... WAIT, I do. Yesterday, when we were in the Mall, I made a complete ass of myself and bailed on the escalator. I totally BIT IT, and sliced my foot open on those bastardly sharp steps. About 50 people at least saw me bail, and we're all probably thinking the same thing: 'stupid, stupid gringa'. Very emberassing, but also very funny.
The toe is recuperating. Nothing a little shot of vodka and a cigarrette cant fix.

SO, if I dont update in a while, im fine....just incredibly too absorbed in the beach.
Oh yeah...Pam, Sage is fine as well. Just incredibly lazy.