On our jaunt, we hung out at a fun little estuary that runs along the foot of a small sea cliff, meets the tide line, and eventually flows into the ocean. It's a great place for the dogs because the water is calm and the swimming is mellow. Even Lea plays fetch here! This afternoon we're headed to Gigante to fill our propane tank and grab some lunch. Here are some photos from our walk...
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Early Morning Walk
On our jaunt, we hung out at a fun little estuary that runs along the foot of a small sea cliff, meets the tide line, and eventually flows into the ocean. It's a great place for the dogs because the water is calm and the swimming is mellow. Even Lea plays fetch here! This afternoon we're headed to Gigante to fill our propane tank and grab some lunch. Here are some photos from our walk...
Monday, March 18, 2013
Liv's First Birthday
We threw a little fiesta to celebrate Liv's first trip around the sun, as Daddy puts it. Nothing fancy - nachos and cupcakes. We had around twenty neighbors drop by in their post St Patrick's Day stupors and we explained to Liv, that she has the rest of her life to enjoy birthdays where your friends are too hungover from the night before, to get wild on your special day. It was a really fun Monday though, starting early in the morning with back to back cake follies.
So, everyone keeps saying to me ..."oh, your baby's one! Didn't it go by so fast?" But honestly, for me it really didn't. It felt like forever. So many of the last 365 days were so momentous and I feel like I stopped to smell every rose on the block. It's been exhausting and humbling and at times, overwhelming but, she truly is our guiding light. And thats just the truth. Happy First Birthday, Liv Aloha. Your love is radiant.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Morning In Rivas
Rivas is a place to go for things you need, not things you want. It is the closest town to us and even though they're paving the road towards our development, it's still a solid forty-five minute drive to gas, ATMs, and a crappy (but recently upgraded) grocery store. Maxi Pali went in about two years ago and it's gotten even better since we left. It's your Nica equivalent of a small scale Walmart. They actually do have everything you need but not fun American items like they have at my favorite grocery store, La Colonia, which is a two hour drive to Granada. This little gem has things like oyster sauce, fish sauce, rice noodles, couscous, arborio rice, and other exotic delicacies that help broaden the menu since we now cook seven dinners a week. One of the greatest parts about living in Nicaragua however, is that there is always someone willing to bring stuff to you for a nominal fee. Our driver in Managua will bring us whatever we need with a simple phone call. It's pretty much totally awesome. We also have a fish guy that comes to the house, a fruit and vegetable truck, and a water, milk and juice guy.
Here are some photos from our trip to Rivas today.
We came the day after payday and opted out of this ridiculous ATM line ..
The mercado ...
Fun at lunchtime.
The new road is much easier on everyone's cars!