Traveling and Tour of Las Isletas

Day One- Wednesday, February 24, 2010

When we arrived in Nicaragua, we went to our hotel, La Posada del Sol, which was very nice with a pool and AC to drop of our bags. Then we dropped of our donations for the Nicaraguan children at the office of La Esperanza Granada. We brought them construction paper, markers, crayons, scissors, chalk, pencils and much more. We also made a bigger donation of laptops and backpacks. Once we emptied our bags of all of our donations, we went on a boat tour of Lake Nicaragua. There are 365 small islands that we toured around on these small boats. We saw birds, fishermen, monkeys, egrets, and 2 girls rowing home from school. The most exciting part was when we were able to hand feed the monkeys. We bought vanilla wafers, which our guide Bosco told us that the monkeys love. They came up to the boat and ate off of our hands. Once we were done playing with the monkeys we stopped on one of the 365 islands. This island had a home and a restaurant on it. What we found very cool is that there was a diving board made of plywood on their dock. We wanted to jump in, but we didn’t know how deep it was… On the boat ride back we were able to see the sunset and it was gorgeous. Once we were back in town, we went back to the hotel and changed. Dinner was at 6:30. It was on a road that we called “The Restaurant Street” because it had so many restaurants. Restaurant Street is where we ate most of our dinners during our stay in Granada. Tables were always set up outside on the road so we were able to see all of the local Nicaraguans. One of our favorite parts was the break-dancers. They would do all of theses amazing dance moves and always kept us watching. Small children would also come up to us and beg for food or try and sell us things. We headed back to the hotel and most everyone went to bed. It had been a long, hot day in the sun.

-Rose and Isabel