Parque Maderas Rules

It's getting kind of late, but I've had a bit of rum...and I feel like writing.

I've been here at the Parque Maderas hostel since Tuesday, and I'm starting to really settle in. The last time I was here in July...I spent the first week here, and then the rest of the time in San Juan del Sur. But this time I feel like I didn't really have the desire to stay there. I've eaten at most of the restaurants, had a Tona and most of the bars, and I feel like I know the city enough, that I don't need to stay there again.

This place has everything that I want, and just confirms that we have decided on the perfect place to build a house. The place that I'm staying is five minutes from our house, and five minutes from the beach. They have cold beers in the cooler 24/7, and every night (except Monday) they serve a family style dinner to all of the guests. Last night we had a Peanut Sauce Chicken...it was so good.

Since I've been here, I've been moving a bit. Both Wednesday and Thursday I was busy with the house. Will and I met both mornings for an hour or so. We talked about plumbing, electricity, and a bunch of other stuff. After taking care of business....we went surfing. Pretty awesome.

After surfing again on Friday morning, I went and checked out the course for a mountain bike race that's going on next weekend down here. Will is helping put in on with some other gringo's in town. It's up in the jungle. There doing time trials on Saturday, and I think I might get a chance to do that. The website is.....http://www.sanjuanhowler.com/

Today, I woke up and went surfing again early. Maderas is dead at 8 o'clock in the morning. The shuttles from town don't start getting there till 10, so you have the place to yourself in the morning. After surfing, I went back up to the house for a bit.

Mar Sano, that's what we're thinking of calling our new Nicaraguan Surf House. It means Healthy Sea...

...so after surfing I went to Mar Sano.

While there, I was wondering how long it would take to walk to the Mango Rosa. Twenty minutes, on the dot. The Mango Rosa is a resort in the area that has a great bar, a nice swimming pool, and lunch. I was hoping to catch some olympics, but they didn't get NBC. Oh well..

So I swam in the pool for a bit, ate some lunch, had a Tona, and stared walking back to my hostel. A couple gringo's headed for Maderas picked me up, and gave me a ride back to the beach. I then spent the evening at the beach. Watched the sunset, and then back up the hill to Parque Maderas.

Tonight after dinner, everyone that was staying here, walked down to the beach to check out the Phosphoresence. It's some sort of plankton that glows in the beach sand when there isn't a moon. We just walked around and the ground below started glowing...it was cool.

Everyone staying here is so chill.

I'm not sure what the rest of my time down here is going to consist of, but my best guess is.... I'll be between here...and the beach, for a great majority of it. It's too good to leave.

Well, it's time to get some sleep. Early bird gets the worm.

Hope everyone is well in the states..

Buenos Noches...