A litte Rant

So I usually do not give out relationship advice but here is a tidbit: Unless you are sure that you are going to be with your significant other for a long time….Do not move in with them….Its the hardest thing to get all your stuff back. Even months after I was forced to get all my stuff out of the house in about an hour time frame…. Of course I think of things that I don’t know where they are… and immediately remember the said object or objects are at my former residence…The first month after the break up it was everyday use items…. Like a shirt or a jacket….but last night I was sitting in my kitchen thinking about an accumulation of things. Personal business ideas, restaurant ideas….then I was thinking about how much I love coking with fresh herbs from our garden and how I remember the reading preface of one of my favorite cookbooks that gives information about all the traditional Italian herbs. What the herb smells like, taste like….how the herb enhances the flavor of the dish you are adding it to….its really great…. But I looked around and suddenly realized…I had left that damn book and all my other cookbooks at the cunt’s house…. So you might say just call your ex…yeah, last time I tried calling to ask about my things….the girlfriend answered the phone…. Yeah….so I wont be doing that…. I guess I will be buying myself all new better cookbooks….Italian cookbooks!

 

Yummy seafood lunch:)


Then we left for home:)

 

Impromptu hand stand competition...

 

 

 

I am one with the Flor de Cana....this was my mantra

Rest and Relaxation meant that the Flor de Cana flowed like water down our throats! These are some of the more fun pictures of the trip. Again, very productive drunk!

 

We go to a nice dinner this night... one drink and I am out for the count... that's how exhausted I was. I felt more drunk then I had ever been in my life after just one Macqua. Lots of sleep this night... I had a fan pointed directly on my face... and slept like a new born...
Now time for some real vacation time. The next morning we left for a mor touristy part: SAN JUAN DEL SUR

 

The proof is in the pudding... Guess I am not the only one who believed that these interconnected swirls represented Ometepe. And the ever present shadow of Sandino.

 

 

My reward...huge bottle of water, no shoes, muddy body....No problems!!

 

View from the bottom....

 

The group... shoes off and hungry

 

Mother fucker, Maderas

So we start the climb out of the crater...and it was a climb not just stepping up....we climbed out, pushed out...the rain started coming down so hard that waterfalls of mud and rock were cascading on our already exhausted bodies...I had a melt down for about 10 seconds and then continued... The walk down was actually kind of fun for the first 3 hours... then I was just ready to stop moving...

 

Same group, inside the crater. Not so happy? This was a site to see and I wish I had been more enthused to have made it to the inside... this hike wore me out... 4hours of a increasing incline. It was foggy, due to we were inside a cloud forest. However the one thing that was the most amazing...was that I knew that I was inside a huge crater...but could only see to the edge of the laguna...the fog was to eerily think and from a distance you could hear the holler monkeys....then came the rain...

 

The next day was the hike up Maderas....I had my camera with me for the hike....but was mostly too exhausted to even think of taking pictures. This is the group at the half way mark... notice that we still have a sense of humor about the whole thing.

Okay, enough rocks....

 

You see what I mean?

 

Consistently, there were two different types of faces we would see. Like this one, we would see faces represented at two holes for the eyes and a hole for the nose or mouth. Also associated with this type of face was this round shape carved in the chest. Like a heart or a soul, or maybe it had more religious meaning.
The other face we would see were circles drawn for eyes....and an X on the chest. Maybe representing two different tribes, or maybe something else... maybe a warrior....

 

spider?

 

I figured this was a map of some sort. I think these spirals represent the other volcanos on the main land of Nicaragua. I cant believe that all these petroglyps were random art.... some of them yes... but these seem to have to many similarities to the other sites we visited.

 

I came to the conclusion that this symbol represented Ometepe, the island. As I wondered around, I tried to look fr patterns...for example certain symbols faced towards the Volcano Concepcion and then others would face the Volcano Maderas. This didn't seem to be true... but I still feel like the people who carved these symbols had a religious tie to these Volcanos, considered them to be gods. I would, these active Volcanos that influenced the daily structure of life on the Island.

 

We get back to the place we were staying at lunch time, ham sandwiches... yummy. Needed the fuel. Then with whatever energy we had left, we went on a search for Petroglyphs!

 

Heart shaped rock...Made me think of my friend, Rachel. I would have brought this home but decided to leave it so everyone else could enjoy!