Peace Out USA, Hello Peace Corps: Michelle's Island Adventure

Michelle: I want to live on Ometepe. This may have been the best day ever.

Pedro: Because I enjoy flaunting how I have the best job ever, I like to ask “Michelle, what would you normally be doing on a Friday??”

Michelle: Boring, unexciting stuff like going to meetings and updating Excel documents. Instead, we had an awesome, we’re-in-paradise day. We got in after dark last night and didn’t realize how close we were to the water. Turns out our hotel is right on the waterfront and we ate breakfast looking out over Lake Nicaragua.

The playa is just a few short steps from our room!

View from breakfast

Peter: Incredible. After breakfast we took a morning walk on the beach. For as far as we could see, there was nothing but tropical forestry, water, and two looming volcanoes. Minus a little sunburn, it was amazing!

Pete's best imitation of Michelle from her high school cheerleading days

Sandbar + volcano

Money shot

And the Lord said, Peter shall walk on water.

Volcano La Concepcion

Michelle: It was cool too, because we walked for about an hour (thus the sunburn) but saw maybe five-seven people, a horse and two cows. It was pretty much our own private beach. Then as we walked to our next adventure, we looked up and saw 10-15 monkeys playing in the trees above and around us. A little farther down, we saw another pack of them, including a teeny baby monkey way up in the trees. So, so cool. We also passed a band of men with machetes (they were prettying up the trees/bushes on the side of the road), but definitely one of those Nica things you never get used to…

Look! Monkeys!

They were friendly

Peter: Speak for yourself. I don’t look twice at creepy men wielding machetes anymore… Anyway, we safely ended up at Ojo de Agua. It is a naturally filtered spring pool right in-between the two volcanos. I’m sure Michelle’s pictures can describe it better than I can.