Three more weeks and Back in NICA

Hello Friends! Right now David and I are back in Nicaragua in San Juan Del Sur, we have women sandals, I now have a bright green bag full with clothes and a swollen eye let me fill you in on what has happened to us for the past couple weeks...
Last time I wrote we were in Panama city I had no bag and we were staying at an insane hostel that was huge. On the way to that hostel we met some Israely girls who ended up cooking us an amazing meal that night and we hung out with them for a couple of days. In the travel book that we have it told us that we could go roller skating along the panama canal so we said duh why would we do anything else. I misunderstood it and it happened that we could only roller skate along this cause way which looked alot like Miami so it wasnt that interesting, also we ended up not roller skating but biking instead, a dissapointment and we also had a bigger group now, some from Israel a guy from south Carolina two girls from French Canada and a guy from england. It was a fun day we watched the world cup and what not and had a great time. Also the day before this we were walking down the street to look for a world cup game to watch at a restraunt of some sort and then some constuction workers started to talk to us asked us who we were rooting for in the game, we said Brazil, and they invited us up to there place. It was an apartment complex kind of like a housing project in the states, they showed us there tv which was as big as their place and we sat down and watched it with their family. It was awesome and funny becasue the construction workers had to go back to their jobs and left us in their place. The next day we did the biking thing and on our drive back we saw the ghetto of the part of town we were in and David of course wanted to go there so we went. On our walk out to it some cops stopped us and asked us where we were going we said to that area and after a long conversation of him telling us that we should not go there because it is too dangerous we kept walking towards it and went into the first street after like 50 yards of walking I got punched in the face... not really, haha, but we did come across this Jamaican Woman who told us we were allowed to be here and that it was a red zone and we should leave right now. So we of course started talking to her and made friends with her and found that she was a cook and had all the preperations to make an amazing meal so we got one from her. She fried a whole fish for us with shrimp and friend plantains for 3 dollars... awesome. the best food we had so far, we also met this other guy there that was real nice and from Bocas del Torro which is a place we visited later. He walked us home so we wouldnt get jumped and the next day we brought back some of the people that we met in the hostel back to the same place, we got stopped by the cops again and the other guys were freaked out but we eventually, after getting lost in the ghetto haha, found the same place and had the same meal again. Also while in Panama City we restocked my clothing. We bought me a little kids bright green bag with all kinds of designs on it and the people we bought it from were laughing at us for buying it. We also bought some siccors for shaving of course and a white t shirt from a street vendor. After being fully restocked with cloths (one white tshirt, my tank i was wearing, my bandana, light blue shorts, and a pair of shoes) we were once set again to conquer the world.
The English guy that we met at the hostel was one of our favorites so far and we hung out with him and he ended up giving me a shirt a bottle of hot sauce and some cordoba change that he still had from Nica. he gave me a shirt that said in spanish on the front nothing is exaggerated when you love your automobile, hahaha... I just laughed after david translated it for me. There also we got to have some good conversations with some people about what we are doing next year and about Christ in a clear loving way. Awesome. Also after that we went to El Valle which is a town in a volcanic crater.
We get there meet two people right away, the first of which was an old man who lives there and is from Oregon, who was just simply happy to talk and it was great giving him that pleasure. Also we met another guy who was an artist and was doing a project in the town and he told us about the place that he was staying which was very cheap. So we went with him and there we stayed at a hippy gathering spot. All of them were artisans and traveling off the money that they make from selling things they make. While there we were told after walking a while to the hotsprings that we needed bathing suits to go i the hot springs, we werent allowed to go in with normal shorts or with athletic shorts we had to have shorts specifically made for swimming and they didnt know my situation of having three shirts and one pair of shorts so they didnt really understand why we would want to swim in normal cloths. So that night we went on a hike to a lookout spot that was supposed to only be an hour which it was but we got lost even though it was only one road haha. So we got to the end of this path and did not have a great view like we were supposed to so we just trekked it straight up this grassy hill, it was small so not that big of a deal and then took some pictures and went back down. On our trek down it started to rain and then it started to poor. It was the hardest rain we had ever seen hahaha it was amazing. Then the path that we came up on turned into a river hahaha, I fell of course got my only pair of clothes super muddy then after we got down we went into a super market and bought dinner and everybody was looking at us and laughing and after making the whole supermarket dirty we left and went home made food. The next day we bought sandals, for a dollar but these werent any ordinary sandals they could possibly be womens sandals. So now David and I a rollin around Central America in foot wear made for women. We didnt really like el Valle so we moved on after a couple days.
Next we caught a bus to the highway. Once we got to the highway all we really knew is that we wanted to go north. So after sitting at the bus stop for a while we just jumped on a bus and were off. we eventually got to a cross roads between two highways and got off. We then got amazing fruit drinks wfrom this lady and started simply walking down the street and tried hitch hiking. We had no luck and ended up flagging down a bus after some truckers told us not to do that because it was dangerous. So then on we went. We ended up at David which was the town we eventually wanted to get to anyway but our hopes for an adveturous hiking experience were shot. We stayed at this place called the purple house and met the most ridiuculous people. I also bought some pants. Blue jeans, now these werent any normal blue heans these were blue blue Jeans real blue, like if you think of the color blue and mixed it with more blue that is what you would get. They are also alittle big, but either way I needed pants because we were going to an ecolodge and another town in the mountains where is supposedly gets cold.
We then got to Boquete there we stayed at a hostel with the most hilarious man alive. His name was Poncho, which speaks for itself. Poncho was the owner of the hostel and was a skinny dude alittle over six foot and wired out of his mind all of the time. We arrive hes excited, he says hello hola bueno dias, nuenos noches, good day, how are you doing, como estas, and others in five seconds. He shows us our room it was nice and we actually got real nice sleeps there. Then the best part after he had been talking to us in mixed english and spanish for a while with his eyes wide open and extremely fast he drew us a map. Now imagine a man that is more excited then any person I have ever met explaining the terrain, milage, and where everything is in the town with simply a pen and a peice of paper... He knew I didnt speak spanish so he was mainly directed towards david... First he draws central park and draws a line to his hostel which was on the border of central part he says here central part here poncho, good location haha... then he proceeds to draw a scale in kilometers he says 5 kilometers draws a line and marks off one two three for five, then he draws a map to the water falls and says north, he points north, west, he points west then immediately he points northwest and says that about three times north, west, northwest haha! During this whole time remember he is talking to david I am sitting next to him and holding my mouth as tears are running down my cheeks while im trying not to laugh. It was amazing. There is so much more that he did that was amazing but this blog is already too long to onward.
In that hostel we met some cool people two of which from New Zealand started traveling with us. They are a couple about thirty named Emma and Jacob, First off they are great and we are still with them now, we didnt know at the beginning but Jacob is hilarious and Emma is one of the sweetests people I have ever met. They decide to come with us to this eco lodge. This is a hostel in the middle of a cloud forest in the mountains of Panama it was the coolest place that we have stayed so far. It had many different tours and stuff that we ended up going on a coffee and wine tour and did a treasure hunt the day before with the New Zealand couple and a couple from holland. This was a great day we walked around the cloud forest trying to figure out clues at different land marks and eventually won a bottle of rum. The six of us split it and had a drink each then it was gone. Also there were foosball tournaments everynight one of which both david and I with our partners that were randomly selected got to the finals and davids team won. In This hostel there were an enormous amount of bugs and my ankles got destroyed. And I found out that I was allergic to these bugs that were biting me and I woke up the next morning with real fat feet. I had enormous kankles which is a calf ankle meaning you cant distinguish between your calf and your ankle. But to the extreme if you just looked at my feet and ankles you would have thought that I was 300 pounds. So my ankles were fat and off to the beach where I just had to embrace them and couldnt wear pants. We went to Bastementos Island in Bocas Del Toro with the New Zealand couple and the second day a couple one from South Africa and one from Australia met us there. The second day we went on a fishing trip for ten bones, and this wasnt any ordinary fishing trip where you would get to fish this was a fishing trip where we went on a boat they took us to the other side of the island and they fished and gave us hand lines and basically said have at it. So I snorkeled for a bit and tried to troll my bait behind me while I was swimming... didnt work, then we after getting alittle frustrated told the main guy who was crazy and always hung out at our hostel to show us how we are supposed to catch fish. So he brought us over to these rocks and we all tried for a couple hours Aisha the Australian girl caught a little snapper and I ended up catching a pretty big fish it was called a trigger fish and may have been a pompano but what ever I caught a fish and they filleted it and later that night the crazy guy cooked us all the fish that the other guys caught so we actually won out a bit. This meal was phenomanal tuna albacore, my fish, a red snapper and some octopus that the guys caught. And it was over coconut rice and with a side of some stirfry of lobster and octopus, so good. Then we all moved on and went to Costa Rica
In Costa Rica we stayed at this hostel with the two couples and that was it. It was basically a house, and from there the guy who owned it made us Civiche the next day for five bones and he was a shef so that was good. Then the next day we were all hang out on the beach david and I decided to go and try to get some coconuts out of the tree which was a common occurance any time we were on teh beach. And then after I lunged a stick at a coconut and it didnt come down out of no where a massive wasp came down and nailed me right in the forehead and naturally I sprinted yelled like a drunk and dove into the water. It felt like a kid just chucked a rock and nialed me in the head, needless to say it hurt bad. But it didnt really swell and I was fine that night and we had cubans and watched a sunset, not a bad night. Then the next morning the poison from the killer wasp ran down through my face focusing on my eye and left me a present for the next morning. I woke up and it looked like I got in a fight with a howler money and lost. my eye was almost swollen shut. hahaha, bummer. Then the next day I went spear fishing for free with Greg the guy from Australia and the guy who owned the hostel. The next day we rode all day on buses and eventually found ourselves all in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. WE are still with the two couple and this is probably our last day, but they have been amazing to hangout with and travel together with. They are great and we are probably parting ways tomorrow so Peace friends and have great travels when ever you read this.
So Now we are chillin I have no shirt on naturally and my girl sandals and david and I just ate a fudgcicle on a Nicaraguan roof deck. Also the Lord has been moving with us we have grown in our relationship together and have had many great conversations with the couple about what we do and believe. Also Friends and family... PEACE OUT SUCKAS and see you in three weeks.