Day 3 in Nica: It was so hard to wake up this morning. Cool mountain morning but I still had not taken a shower, so my first shower of the trip involved screaming and moaning. The water was so cold you had to brace yourself and jump in and out of the freezing trickle that was suppose to be the best part of waking up.... absolutely not! I roomed with Stacy and I could hear her laughing at me. After a quick breakfast of coffee with milk and cookies (I think), we load into the trucks and head towards our first stop of the day. A location where we could find soap stone. "Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of the mineral talc and is thus rich in magnesium. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occurs in the areas where tectonic plates are subducted, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx of fluids, but without melting. It has been a medium for carving for thousands of years." Put to me this place just look like lots of rocks. This picture is at the top of the hill we climbed. We were pretty high but it seems it doesn't really look like it.
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