Granada, Nicaragua

We decided to leave the beach and head out to Granada on the first. Needless to say I was pooped with being up with Laney in the night and then early with Creed. Luckily we had rented a car so we could go at our own pace. We wanted to check out Leon a bit on our way out of town, but only seemed to get ourselves lost for an hour. We finally made it out. I could go on and on about how bad the maps are and how there are hardly any addresses. Granted Leon actually had some street signs. It is the same in Costa Rica where no one has an address. You have to tell people you are a 100 meters from this thing or that thing. Finding places and roads can be challenging. It is kind of hard for me to get use to. No point in continuing that rant since it does no good.

We actually made it to Granada without getting lost. It is such a cute city. We just drove to the town square and found something to eat. I promise I will insert pictures here of the beautiful yellow church and other fun places.

We did not have a place to stay so Jason started asking at hotels. We noticed right away that there were tourists and English speakers. We attempted to stick with our Spanish. Jason did a great job having Spanish conversations and I did a good job listening and inserting random sentences. Anyway, we found this great hotel across the street from the town square. Manuel showed us a room and we fell in love with it even though it smelled, was extremely dark and you could hear loud construction going on underneath. It had two large rooms with a door in between. We were so excited to have a little room. The kids started playing right away. Laney was still recovering and a little chill time in the hotel was good for her.

Views from in front of our hotel.

Manuel went to the pharmacy and got us some more medicine and told us some fun things to do. He was very helpful and fun. Plus, he did not speak English. He helped us set up a boat tour with Orvon for the next morning. Granada is on an enormous lake, Lake Nicaragua. It has 365 islands on it from Volcano Mombacho exploded numerous years ago. We relaxed the rest of the day and went to bed early.