The end is near!

Hello again!
Here we are, our last full day in Nicaragua! We are spending the night in Granada tonight and will be taking a (very) early shuttle to the airport in Managua. We fly from Managua to Atlanta and Atlanta to Vegas. We spend the night in Vegas then make our way back North to Alaska!!
We have had a great trip but are very much looking forward to getting home. Though, I am not looking forward to dealing with a few things, ie: Someone stole my card info and charged $650 dollars in New York!! So, I will be doing everything I can to get the bank to bring justice down upon the jerks head(s)!!
I´ll post pictures when I get home, so you all can enjoy the beauty that we saw here!!

San Juan del Sur

After a few days on Isla de Ometepe, we are down in the south of Nicaragua at San Juan del Sur, which is a tourist hot spot. It´s a bit different than the rest of our travels, but still a good time. We almost did not come here, we were on Isla de Ometepe thinking how much we wanted to go back to Jiquilillo...we decided to come down though and I¨m so glad we did! We saw Kyle Martin last night, a friend from Healy...totally random! We were at the beach when we looked over at this guy standing by the fire ( I know, don´t ask me why their is a fire on the beach here, more for ambiance than heat!) and we both say, that looks like Kyle, lo and behold....it IS Kyle!! He was here for a few days with his friend Andrew and they were headed back down to Costa Rica, where they run a hostel, the next day. So, we weren´t planning on going down to Costa Rica, but, plans change! The Universe works in mysterious ways!
We have been loving our time here, (though Evan has not been as excited about the heat as I me!) but we are definitly excited about getting home! There will be no bugs, HOORAY!!
I probably won´t get a chance to post pictures until I get home in March, so be looking out then!!
Until next time...

Nicaragua!!

Evan enjoying a handrolled Cigar at the Cigar factory we toured.
A beautiful sunset at Jiquilillo beach
Another reason not to get stung by a sting ray: Infection!!
Us as we were going in to Canon de Somoto....a truly amazing and marvelous place!!

Nicaragua/Vegas/Red Rocks

Finally! Here are some pictures of our travels. There are many more to come, but for now this is the beginnings of our trip in Las Vegas where we had an awesome steak dinner with Nate Porter and Cassalynn David. We went climbing at Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas for a few days, then meandered our way down to Joshua Tree National Park where we got our butts thoroughly kicked!! It was a beautiful and wonderful place though and I left wishing that we had more time there!
So the pictures are in reverse order, the first one is us sweating our butts off in Nicaragua, the 2nd is at Joshua Tree, the 3rd is our stoic picture of us at Lake Meade (I think!) the 4th is our deelicious steak dinner and the last is Nate and Evan kickin it with the cowboy on Fremont street in Las Vegas!! I don't know how to turn the picture, sorry!!!