Almost 40 days and 40 nights! Wow! This past weekend has been great. Last Wednesday or Thursday, a few faculty members from Trinity and Dordt came for a visit. One of the first nights they were here, everybody came to my house for dinner. It was cool and amazing food.
On Saturday, we took a trip to Granada. In the morning we walked on another volcano. I can't believe it either ma! It's Volcano Mombacho. The ride up was kind of scary because it was basically driving vertically up the side of a volcano in a truck with no roof and no seat belts. We managed to make it though. I uploaded a few photos of this whole day on my facebook page. The view from the top of the volcano was beautiful. We could see Granada down below and some islands that were created when the volcano erupted years ago.
After the volcano, we went out for lunch and got hamburgers. It was a delicious treat. I got a bacon cheeseburger, my favorite.
In the afternoon we went on this boat tour of the little islands created from the volcano eruptions. At first it was cool, really peaceful and there were some amazing houses. Everybody had their own island. One piece of land that we saw was only about $150,000 to own the entire island. You can't beat that. It's less than buying just a house in the states. I say "at first it was cool" because then we got to Monkey Island. I thought I was going to lose my mind. It is exactly what the name says it is. Apparently some German professor or something put monkeys on this island and left. They can't swim so they have to stay there but people come by on these boat tours and feed them or whatever. So we pull close to these trees and there are monkeys swinging on branches all over. I'm thinking "Okay, we'll get a couple pictures from here, we're pretty close." Then all of a sudden this monkey leaps off the branch and lands right on the front of our boat. It was like a bad foreshadowing scene from a scary movie. I almost flipped out. The monkey starts walking through the boat aisle like a little kid, looking at us. It was the most intense out-of-body experience I've ever had in my life. The boys are feeding it cashews and it's sitting on people's laps. I took photos but I refused to touch or be touched by it. I got nothing against animals but I'm not that kind of person that enjoys them in the wild so much. It's a little too "Animal Planet Extreme" for me. The monkey was nice though from what I observed. Really friendly and stuff.
And THAT was my weekend.
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