you wanna granada?

so a couple of weeks ago the married folk and i went to granada to renew our visas.. i LOVE nicaragua. hay buena gente en nicaragua. here's a list of the many things that we got to do...

1. sleep in (i even got 8 hours some nights!)
2. eat good food (the pizza at mona lisa's was mouthwatering, mindblowing, earthshattering-- can you tell i am tired of cooking?)
3. meet good people (i met a friendly man named mauricio on the top of a bell tower who is going to be my new email penpal so that i can practice my spanish-- he got a degree from some californian college)
4. go on a private boat tour (tourism is really dead in the wet season)
5. go to art exhibits, old churches, markets, cultural centers (there are neat petroglyphs in granada transported from ometepe-- my favorites were el diablo and hunchback. i also found out that people used to worship these deities by hanging from tall log things.. it looked like they were just playing see-saw though.)
6. ride the public transportation system (nicaraguan buses are just old blue birds from the states.. one lady got on with a giant bowl of flan that was filled to the brim! everbody was eyeing it nervously yet hungrily..)


also! the dogs there were so cyute and scraggly. there was one particular dog with sticky-outy, lopsided ears that i couldn't resist. so i petted him and called him my little perrito (people in central america usually don't pet dogs- so gringos who do it are a bit of a joke).. well after that.. one thing led to another... and i was deskirted... in front of some fruit stand ladies. they loved it.. i loved it. the dog loved it. fun sexy times for everyone!


here is my favorite picture from the trip courtesy of jeffrey rinderkinecht.



rescued spider monkey on one of the isletas from our private boat tour (courtesy of jr).


ain't nothin't but a horse and carriage! (courtesy of jr)


tamara and me in our very own panOrama! (courtesy of jr)



cool old church.


tamara on the bell tower. (courtesy of jr)