We are alive!

We arrived in Managua early this morning. Our original ¨plan¨was to sleep at the airport until we could catch a bus in the mourning, but we thought that we would try to take a taxi straight to Granada, but it turned out the guy wanted like thirty bucks, which is really not all that bad concidering, but we knew that we could get there for cheaper if we waited till the morning. We got on a ¨chicken bus¨ (so called because they put every living thing on these busses including chickens, but we were fortunate to only have people) and went to a station called Huebes. That cost us about 10 cordobas for all four of us, which is rounded to about 50 cents. Then from the station we took a taxi to another station which cost 100 cordobas (about 5 dollars) for all of us to UCA (university of central america). From here we took a 15 passenger bus to Granada which was another 80 cordobas, ill let you do the math on that on; its about 20 to 1. So we arrived in Granada safe and sound, with little less than a worry and spent no more than about 2 dollars and 50 cents a piece to get here. I have forgotten the pure joy of going summer and not really knowing when to get off or really where you are going. The simpleness of needing to get to your destination and the joy of actually doing it, and then looking back and realizing that it was not nearly as bad as you thought is one of the coolest feelings in the world and it´s one I have not felt since Italy. It is a joy in its own to be in this beautiful hostel, the Bearded Monkey. Its an old colonial house with an open court yard in the middle with hammocks surrounding troppical plants, it really is beautiful. We are staying in their hammocks for 5 dollars a night. Well this is about the extent of our trip so far, but I just wanted to let all the worried old farts that we are okay, jk, but seriously yall are getting kind of old.......and you are starting to smell a little.....but i guess that is why I love you all so much. It is only 10 AM and we have been up since 5, and we are about to walk around town to look for some food. Love yall muchos (thats spanish for muchos).