San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua

Today was Nicaragua. I cannot pronounce Nicaragua. 

Sitting looking at the word I can, but not without it.

It's a tongue twister.

Here we are waiting in the Theatre for the go ahead to hit the gangway to catch our tour bus.

Me and my hat. Love that hat.

 First stop was this old church.

 I don't remember any details.

 I was impressed with my cell phone camera on these outdoor pics.

The inside was pretty beat up.

 My camera was not as impressive with the indoor pictures.

 There were more figures of Christ, but I didn't take pictures of those.

They weren't uplifting at all.

Next we went out to a plantation of sorts.

They had these cute dancers. 

 It was hard to get good pictures of them facing the right direction.

 These are two volcanos.

 This is not ocean water. It is a lake.

Fred wanted to touch the water.

 This is back at the bay before getting back on the ship.

 It was pretty hot today. 

 There is our ship and the Princess ship we originally booked for this cruise.

 Back to O'Sheehans our favorite place for eating on board when we didn't want to dress up.

They had lots of options for eating when we didn't want to stuff ourselves. 

 Documenting our first time EVER to get in the pool onboard a cruise ship. 

Guatemala

Today we went to Antigua Guatemala.

Our son in law Brian served his mission in Guatemala.

The entire time that is all I could think about.

It made me think how we send our 18 year old boys into this foreign 3rd world countries.

Drop them off and basically say "figure it out and survive".

All the streets were of this cobbled stone. 

It was actually pretty hard to walk on.

 Everything was so old. It didn't look like anything has been restored.

We never ate out at any of the ports except here.

BUT it was a Subway. I know we are pathetic.

 This was their Central Park.

 This is a close up of the street. 

 As we were driving out of town, I saw this Big Bobs Rental. 

It seemed very appropriate to take a picture of it for Blake.

 Big Bobs in Guatemala where his Dad served his mission.

The best shopping was right as you get off the ship.

Goodbye Guatemala.

Costa Rica Ziplining

Fred and I wanted to be a little adventurous on this trip.

I really wanted to go parasailing and ziplining.

So here we are. Fred did all the reading up on things.

Insects, poisonous vegetation ~ it sounded icky.

It was going to be hot and humid. It sounded  pretty awful.

By now I had decided on most excursions I was going to wear long sleeves.

I did not want to get sunburned. I refused though on wearing long pants.

 I don't think we look too bad with all the gear on. 

I've learned how to snuggle up into Fred. 

 Thank you Wendy Allred for the "weight on the back foot, front foot pointing forward."

 Again with having Fred go first so I would know what to do.

The group guide really was good at giving instructions.

I still wanted Fred to go first.

 They tell you how to maneuver your strong hand to keep yourself pointed forward so you can smile at the camera. 

 Fred really had good form.

 I was photo bombing in these two pictures. 

A little butt cheek cracking in my pictures.

 Oh so I did do really good to smile for the camera. So good in fact, that I didn't do any looking around. I was so focused on looking at the camera.

Next time I won't worry about that and actually look at the scenery.

 Gave me insight into wearing a thong.

There were about 8 or 9 platforms with some hiking in between.

It was a little exerting and HOT on this day.