Hola friends and family!

here I am again, back at a computer. I have again tried to upload pictures and now the computer I´m using won´t recognize my card reader! SO....I will just give an update again, sorry no pictures to go along with it!
We got to Nicaragua and headed straight for the beach, Las Penitas is where we went to a nice little hostel called Playa de Roca, which translates to beach of the rock. The waves were really fun and beautiful sunsets all around! I am really wishing that my spanish were better, in fact if I knew how to speak to people would be great...but body and sign language seem to be working out okay for now!
I would have loved to post some pictures of my learning to surf, but unfortunately for me and pretty much going along with my luck, my 2nd day of trying out surfing, I JUST went into the water when lo and behold I get stung by a sting ray! yes, it really happened. It was actually incredibly painful for a while, we were able to go to a clinic by the goodness of some Nica people´s hearts where the doctor gave me some numbing to lessen the pain. The pain went away quickly after i took some pain killer/anti-inflammation meds! There were very nice people at the hostle we were at who translated for us so it was just a much better experience all around, even though it really sucked. Apparenlty it does happen quite often, it was a lower tide too, so it happens even more at those times. It was the last thing I expected to happen, but hey, it happened. Now I can honestly tell you all, you REALLY don´t want this to happen, it really is amazingly painful!
So, after my run in, we just hung out and relaxed onthe beach, took a nap in a hammock, then this morning we came to Leon. We plan on climbing some volcanoes and surfing or tobagganing down, taking a spanish class and enjoying the city here.
People are friendly and even the language barrier is not too much of a problem when you keep a smile on your face!
Hope everyone is doing great...oh by the way! I now have a new nephew! The first in 11 years!!
Take care!
Ange and Evan

Las Vegas and Red Rocks!

Hey All!
We have begun the first part of our Jan-March journey. Evan and I met up in Las Vegas on the 29th and then met up with our friends Nate and Cassalyn to enjoy the bright lights of Las Vegas for a few days. We headed away from Vegas on the day of the 31st to enjoy ringing in the New Year out at Lake Mead. It turned out to be a fantastic idea: enjoying good friends, a blue moon and 2010!
We then went to Red Rocks for a few days and did some hiking, rock scrambling and some rock climbing.
I will post pictures when I can hook up my card to a computer! Red Rocks is AMAZING I would highly recommend it to anybody, though it does get quite busy on the weekends. TONS OF PEOPLE!!
Mom, our phones died so, sorry we couldn't call!! ; )
From Red Rocks we are getting some much needed showers and heading down to Joshua Tree where we will stay for about 5 days and enjoy some more rock climbing.
I'll put another post up next week when we get back from Joshua Tree. Until then!!