La laguna!

This weekend I was supposed to go to Ometepe, but the trip didn´t work out so instead we went to the laguna again. I love going to the laguna. Its so beautiful...and this time I brought my camera. The second picture is my friend Carlos with the laguna in the background. You can see the volcano behind Carlos, its a little cloudy but you get the idea. After we took the picture you drive down this steep road to get to the lake. On the way down Edwin saw monkeys so we stopped for a while and took picture of the monkeys. It was very cool to be standing there surrounded by monkeys, listening to them hoot. When we got to the laguna it started to rain but we got in the water anyway...the sun came out in a bit and it was a lovely afternoon.

When we got back we were famished so we went to get some classic Nicaraguan food in the market (plasita de Magdalena). We ate atol and yoltamale. I´m in love with yoltamales, they´re awesome. I haven´t figured out how to make them yet, but I will. Its sweet corn and some sugar, and its wrappedin palm leaves. The other picture is me and my friend Megan eating the yoltamales...delicious.

After that we went home, showered and changed and went dancing. We had a great time, got very sweaty with all the people there but it was fun just the same. I´ve never sweat so much in my life. Megan is a terrific dancer, seriously. I´ve never seen anyone move like that. There was a dance competition, and we convinced her to compete. I think she was a little nervous but she got up on stage anyway. There were three girls in the competition, and Megan won hands down. It was pretty funny because at the end the crowd had to vote on who won. Megan got the most applause and won a free drink...she was quite pleased with herself. All in all it was a good Saturday.