Thursday, September 9, 2010

A Day at the Zoo

We have our own little animal wrangler here at basecamp. And he's got himself a little zoo! We went in to check out the goods. Snakes, tarantulas, and the cutest little neon green frogs! I held one! Animal Wrangler Perman is the best.

The boa was trying to escape and attack/strangle me. Clearly.
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These are not the same snake, and we're supposed to know this by looking at it.
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My fave:
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My lil frien!
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AGGGGHHH
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Rainshine

The weather here is pretty fun. It's either hot as hell and sunny, or hot as hell and raining. In this case, it was sunny and raining! Neat!

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That's our transport van that we get around town with.

What's that? You want more sunset pictures?

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That's my boss Jimmy. aka "Yimmy"

Monday, September 6, 2010

On The Rocks, With Salt (in my wounds)

Another dia libre! My day off was yesterday, weather was on my side, and I got another fun beach day out of it. Hooray! Annette, Kiley, Danny, AB, and I trekked out to Playa Madera-- another surfer's paradise. We get there and the waves were pretty intense and going in every direction. Lucky for me, there were some nice rocks to go climb on, with tide pools. Did I say lucky for me? Because sure enough I ate shit and slid down those rocks on my ass and stomach and elbows and knees! TWICE! I was just about to turn around to get my camera to come back for some pics, and before I knew it, I was on my butt, covered in mud and algae, and maybe hermit crabs. I got scraped and banged up pretty bad, and once I realized I didn't die, I busted up laughing for about 5 minutes. On my way back to Annette, I noticed some more green algae on the rocks, and before I could step the other way, I was already on my ass again. It was hilarious.

Check me out going for a surf!



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Just kidding. That's Kylie. But those are the rocks that I became pretty intimate with in the horizon. I had even mentioned to Annette "Man, those rocks look like a fun water slide". THEY WERE, SORT OF.

I eventually got convinced to try surfing, but just in the little waves out front. The salt water on my scraped knees was exhilarating, as was the whiplash I got every time I fell off the board. MAN, it was exhausting and so not my thing. (Today I feel like I got into a car accident or something). I tried it about 5 times. One of those times, I think I managed to have both feet on the board for a whole second. I'm really glad I tried it, and I miiiiight maaaybe try it again. Needless to say the Toña and fish tacos were the best part.

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Then later, hit up some poolside at the Pelican resort. This is where I don't live:

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The accomodations there are so sweet, people refer to Palermo (where I live, in the villa, mind you) the favelas. (Yep, slums). Funny.

More funny. An actual Aussie (Danny) playing an actual didgeridoo.

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Fun dia libre!

Saturday, September 4, 2010

For Tia












Hi everyone. Please send love, prayers, meditations and good thoughts to our Tia. She's in Managua now, and not doing so great :(. She's a trooper/Survivor though! I hope to go visit her really soon.




Friday, September 3, 2010

Mooooooove

This was by FAR the funniest, most giggliest drive home of all time. Check out the massive parade of cows and horses coming at us, full ON!! Lulllz. Could.not.stop.laughing. There were so many, it was never ending. But the real question is, where's the party at cows? Do tell! We were clearly going in the wrong direction.

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Excuuuse me
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'scuse me
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Pardon me
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'Scuse me
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Dude be boookin iit
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Little darling
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Back on the Toña Train

Wednesday was a great day, because I had my first Toña in daaaaays! Im doing the early shift this week, which gives me a nice late afternoon to wander the town, hang on the beach, grab a beerski and watch another ridiculous sunset. Anytime the sun is out and about, I have to be outside, even though it makes me sweaty. You never know when it'll rain the whole entire day. For example, yesterday.

Wednesday afternoon, at around 5 or so, it was like the social hour on the streets. All the store owners grab a chair, bring it outside and probably gossip about the gringos walking around. It was pretty cool to see, but then I was shy about taking pics. I did find this one though, for Friendo's friendo.

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The Pier bar
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Welcome back girlfriend
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Never gets old for me (maybe for you?)
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Waiting to Inhale

In honor of being able to breathe through both nostrils, and appreciating the finer things in life, I'm gonna post some pics of things I really love. Colorful buildings! Sunsets!

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That's the other view from the hammock. The last 2 days it's been perfectly breezy, really quiet and peaceful. I literally lay there for hours. Then of course something walks underneath me and I'm SURE it's a rat of some kind. Surely you can imagine me trying to quickly get OUT OF A HAMMOCK. It turned out to be a crow, and it flew away into the tree. Damn crows. But still, it's the best place to be.