We spent a lot of time in the car today. We left a little before 8 AM and got back just after 8 PM. It was fun to see some different parts of the country, but we did spend a lot of time driving around. Our first stop was to eat Quesillos. These things are not good. It is essentially a couple tortillas with chopped onions with some sort of cream on top. Of course they ordered me the extra large plate at 9 in the morning when I wasn't even remotely hungry. The people here love them and as far as I'm concerned they can keep them. After choking down half a plate we went to the top of this volcano in a national park here. I didn't know this before, but Nicaragua is an active volcanic region. I guess they erupt every once in a while but they are usually smoking as you can see in the pictures. It was really cool to see it so close up.
After that we went to Masaya which is a little bit touristy. The thing I hate about tourist areas is you are a target for every man, woman, or child peddling something. If that isn't annoying enough, while we were eating lunch in a restaurant at least five different peddlers came up to our table trying to sell us there junk. I can't believe the restaurant owners would even allow it. I didn't like that aspect of things but I'm done complaining. We saw this old volcano crater lake afterwards and then made our way back home. All in all it was a really fun day. We saw a lot of cool places and had a lot of laughs along the way. One more day to go...
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