Semana Santa passed about two weeks ago. My friend Eric Krauss came down for 10 days to visit. I hadn't seen Eric in 4 years, so it was really good to hang out with him again. Eric was a friend and roommate of mine in college. We had a lot of fun together joking and had some great conversations.
Eric came the week before Semana Santa. He spent a few days working, hanging out, and coming to school. We went on a short motorcycle trip to Volcan Mombacho with Joel and Lora Kleinsasser and some of their friends that came down to visit them.
The next day my roommates, Eric, some other friends, and myself all left for Costa Rica. My roommate Robbie lives half the time in Costa Rica and half the time in Managua. We stayed at Robbie's family cabin in the mountains just outside San Jose. It was cold up in the mountains, we were wearing jackets and started a fire every night. The view down on the city was beautiful.
We also did a lot of hiking and trail walking, as you can see from the pic above of Eric in the forest. We stayed up in the mountains until Tuesday evening.
Wednesday morning Eric left to head back to the states. The rest of us went white water rafting. It was a lot of fun. We split up into two rafts and went down the river for six hours or so. Thursday we headed up to Arenal, which is a volcano in Costa Rica where there is also a beautiful lake. The volcano is one of the most active in the world, at night we could see the lava running down the side.
Friday we went to some hot springs. They were OK, a little bit too touristy but they were still alright. Saturday we went horseback riding and canopy touring. We had quite a bit of fun. Horseback riding was a blast! Because we are in Central America they actually let you ride the horses instead of just trotting along. Saturday afternoon we headed back to Managua on our eight hour trek.
It
was a fun Semana Santa and definitely a needed vacation from school. Now we are up to the 4th quarter and I feel a little bit more mentally ready to tackle the last 9 weeks of school.
Nos vemos,
j
1 comment:
Looks fun Jonny. I have been looking forward to seeing this post.
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