For dinner, we went to a nice restaurant and listened to a guy play a guitar and sing. The day before we had bought some nice cards featuring pictures of Nicaragua, or just La Selva Negra, I'm not sure. Doesn't matter which it was a whole lot. We thought it would be a nice gesture of all of our gratitude towards Dora, Catalina, Mario, Jimmy, and David. These were the people who told us what to do when, cooked our meals, and drove the trucks and van for the second week that we were in Nicaragua. Jimmy also translated which was nice because even I didn't know every word that was being said in Spanish all the time.
Side note: by the end of the first week, I was tired of most people just assuming I would translate everything. Wrong. People had to learn that they couldn't always depend on a person or that there would even be a person there to translate. I feel that the others should have had to have no one to translate. I feel that the others should have had to have no one to translate for them for a day and see how they would do. Except with David, that would almost never happen. Oh well. Then we could be 100% immersed in the language with no one who speaks English to lean on/depend on. End of side note.
Today, 3/29/15, we woke up at 4:15 am. It was still very dark outside. We headed to the airport and customs didn't take too long. I was a little worried that they would go through my suitcase and find the small volcanic rock that I had taken from the path on the way to the cave or Volcan Masaya. I don't remember which. I don't think I was supposed to do that. A little too late now, don't you think?
We got into Houston about a half an hour early. We still had over 5 hours to wait. In that time, I got a Subway sandwich which I couldn't remember the last time I had had one of those. We also played a many rounds of Peanuts and Solitaire. When we were about to go wait for boarding the plane, they made the dreaded announcement that we were going to be leaving 40 minutes to an hour later than scheduled. They said that the flight coming from Managua. They said they were having some mechanical errors and that the pilot had to clear customs. As I have been writing this latest entry, we are currently on the plane from Houston to Portland. It was still light when we took off and the sun set soon after that.
Flight from Houston to Portland.
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