Moving house & Ziplining

MOVING HOUSE & ZIP-LINING

Hi all, 

Here we are with our new roomies, Joe & Lisa.  We've actually left their lovely abode now but it was great for the 5 days that we were there.  Thanks for having us guys!

Ah well someone has to do it.  This is the pool in the complex and it 's straight across the road from the beach, pretty sweet!

Sorry that there haven't been so many updates lately, we have moved house and we are now living a little way out of town.  This has its benefits, one being that in 2 weeks time Semana Santa (Holy Week) begins, apparently 4,000 extra people turn up in the town centre and everything goes crazy, so it'll be good not to be right in the centre of all that.  

The downside is it's a bit further into town, not too bad, about a 20 minute walk but when the group is at 7.30 am (yes you read right, 7.30am!!!) that makes it a little harder.  They are obviously morning people here but although I'm not it does seem to be working out ok, it's so hot that it's nice to get started early before things heat up too much.

The other downside is that we don't have internet so it's not so easy to keep in touch.  But next month we should have it set up at the actual apartment that we're going to rent so that'll be good.  Then I should also be able to organize some online teaching too which'll help with topping up the coffers.

As planned we headed off for our zip-lining adventure on Sunday and it was awesome, it was with a company called ‘Da Flying Frog’ – there are 17 zip-lines covering about 2.5 kilometres through the treetops of the forest canopy.  We got picked up in town .....

I would really recommend the company, there were about 13 of us and there were 5 guides.  The equipment was heavy duty and the guides were safety conscious and very professional.  The cost was $US30 and included pickup and drop off.

You could get some good speed up on some of the ziplines and we saw quite a few monkeys in the trees as we whizzed by which was awesome. 

I also got to see a sloth sleeping in one of the tree tops which was the highlight of the day for me.  If you didn’t know it was there you would have missed it but as I’d been asking the guides if there was any chance of seeing one when we arrived at one of the platforms they pulled me back up the line to hover over a tree where they knew one was and we hung just a few of metres above it  so I could get a good look.  It was all arms and legs dangling all over the place, such a groovy creature.  I had sent the camera ahead with Kieran so wasn’t able to take a picture.

It was Chase’s dream to see a sloth while we’re here in Nicaragua so he was one happy chappy when the guides took him and a few of the others back to see it too.  He got a shot with his telephone, it’s pretty hard to make out but here it is.  Although it blended in with the trees and was wrapped all around the branches you could see its cute little face and long gangling limbs.

And that was zip-lining!