Adventure!

I'm sorry I missed you all yesterday, but my day was so jam packed, I didn't have the time to blog. Imagine that! Ryder has a cold and needed to rest and River was in one of his oh-so-two-year-old moods, so mama took it upon herself to do a little self medicating. I went on a two hour adventure to a desolate beach I'd never stepped foot on. I ran most of the way there, which was probably at least three miles. How the heck do you figure out how far you're running without logging the drive by car??? Anyways, it reminded me of high school cross country runs where we would run through Crowfield Plantation before it was totally finished. Picture this: scraped dirt roads with lots of trees and bugs all around. I had to hop over a few tiny creeks as well. I ended up at Playa Escondida. It's actually the next bay over from our house, but the community does not maintain the road there anymore, so you have to go all the way around inland. Needless to say, when I got there, I was exhausted, but it was well worth the trek. There's a huge stair case built into the cliff that takes you down to the beach. It was a beach like you would have seen in the movie, "The Beach". (One of my favorites!) No houses, only green foliage all over the cliffs, sparse rocks in the shallow part of the ocean and the most beautiful blue water. I ran the whole length of the beach and then stripped down into sports bra and undies for a much needed dip in the water. Don't worry, there wasn't a sole around and actually my outfit was probably more covering than most of my bikinis. (Of course this mother of two still dons a bikini! That's why this run was necessary. :)) I walked on the way home and even cheated by taking a short cut that I was so proud of myself for remembering. We had an early date night where we went to the house of the guys Chris has been teaching to surf. Their house was the most amazing house of any I've seen in Nicaragua thus far. They looked and dressed just like Americans, but are from Colombia. Apparently, the father and several past generations are from Nicaragua, but their ancestry comes from Germany way back in the 1800's. They must have all procreated with other German Nicas because this man does not have one ounce of Latin in him. It was pretty cool to meet a different looking true Nicaraguan. It was also nice to learn about their Colombian culture. I know nothing of the country, so they were very gracious to answer all of my nosy questions. We also had really good pizza and chicken wings with bleu cheese dressing!!! I felt it was deserving after the two hour adventure I took earlier in the day by foot. Tona beer, the local cerveza, washed it all down nicely! We left in a rain storm and Chris had to drive our sitter home because all she had was her moto. Unfortunately, he ran out of gas on the way home. (We think there's a leak in the tank.) He had to walk to the gate in the pouring rain and luckily security drove him to the house. He apparently tried to tell me all of this when he got back but I was fast asleep dreaming of pizza, wings and yummy beverages. Chris went to Managua today for the night to get the car fixed once and for all at a real life mechanic's shop! The closest one is two hours away, so fingers crossed, he doesn't run out of gas on the way there. Feliz Sabado y Domingo!!!