It looks like keeping up with 1 post a day proved to be a more difficult task than expected. I have been quite busy over the last two days catching up with work and taking a 15 hour day tour to a wildlife refuge and volcano. New photos are up in the photos page.
Sleepy Cat
So we were picked up at 8 on Saturday morning to head out to the animal refuge and volcano. The first stop was the animal refuge and that was pretty awesome. We got to see a handful of birds and cats. Some of the cats were absolutely enormous and we were very close to them. There is a small fence between you and the animals but it’s way better than a zoo where they keep you far away. I was about 3 feet from that huge leopard and the monkeys. From the refuge we took off towards the rain forest and volcano. We drove through “Windy Town” on the way which name lived up to the experience. It felt like we were driving through a hurricane. We finally arrived at the volcano but unfortunately it was so foggy that we couldn’t see a thing. Three and half hours of driving to a volcano and we couldn’t see squat. Our guide asked if we wanted to hike in the rainforest but we wouldn’t be able to see anything so he said we could go to the hot springs early.
There a handful of natural hot springs near the volcano and they are pretty awesome. It was basically 4 pools set up with increasing heated water in each one. They were all heated naturally and ranged from bathwater to water so warm they had a sprinkler shooting out cold water to cool you down. After 2 hours in the hot springs we were super pruny and hoped to catch a view of the volcano on the way out at dinner.
There is supposedly a volcano back there
We arrived at the restaurant hoping some of the fog will have lifted but again no luck. We could see about 1/3 of the way up the volcano but we couldn’t really see anything that didn’t look like the rainforest. It had the potential to be pretty amazing if the visibility was better because it is an active volcano that shoots lava but I guess we just had bad luck.
So yesterday we woke up and had a light day in Ocotal beach but guess what!? I finally saw some howler monkeys in the wild! There were about 10 of these little guys up in a tree where we were sitting. They were just sleeping for the most part but every few minutes you were reminded why they are called Howler monkeys. They are not quiet what so ever.
For the Super Bowl a few of the other residents here pulled their TVs and chairs out to the general lawn. There were probably a good 15-20 people out there during the game. As usual I enjoyed the commercials more than the game but I thought this year I wasn’t too impressed with them. My favorites were the Doritos commercial with the crystal ball, the Bud Light Meeting, and the trailer for the GI Joe movie.
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