Kickin it in Leon

Up at 7 after and good night's sleep, the illness is starting to leave my body. It's Sunday here in Leon and not much is open at 8am. We head back to the hostel for some fruit yogurt and the Nicaraguan version of granola. Andy took a quick dip in the pool and we packed our bags for the original hostel we intended to sleep in, Somati (it gives money to the environment in some way). We drops our bags and head for the streets.

Every dude we walked by wanted to give Andy a high five. Go Americans! We signed up for the two day Xmas hike tomorrow, should be fun (and very hot)! The inside market had lots of soup with all kinds of meat in it but I wasn't hungry at the time unfortunately. Bought some bug itch cream (I think), a couple antihistamines (I think) and we were on our way. It's pretty hot so we got some ice pops and then sat down at Via Via for a quick bight to eat. I'm so thirsty we order their fruit w/ water drinks- I had orange Andy had lemon. We were thinking they would be like a slushy because everything out here has sugar in it (not that we want sugar in it). To our surprise they were straight up tart juices but ended up being delicious. The nachos consisted of fried tortillas to dip in beans w/ onions in ketchup. Not exactly what I had in mind but it wasn't bad.

It was hot and we covered pretty much the whole town so we head back to Somati for the hammocks. They were lovely. We chilled and napped for 4 hours. Around 5 it had cooled down enough so we went out for dinner. Our plan was to make it to a tapas place on the other side of town but we stopped by Carnivore so Andy of course had to see the menu. There was so much meat on the menu it was too much for me but we did stay for apps and drinks because it was a nice restaurant and we deserved it. We had two screwdrivers, some octopus ceviche, and carpacchio for $14. Word! It was bomb! We walked around for a bit, the streets were bustling w/ locals still shopping and now the street food vendors were out. Just to make sure we had enough to eat we each got a slice of pizza w/ ham ($1.5) and watched the kids skateboard. Now sure why I can't understand what prices people are telling me. I swear they aren't saying standard numbers because I can truly understand numbers, really I can. Back at the hostel early because we have a big day tomorrow.