Granada Nicaragua

couple of funny stories to tell first. So we met these girls from England. Our friend ty thought it would be really funny if we played the game where we talked like them and they would talk like us. How ever they didn't find it so funny. We had a great time with them any ways. In the hostel there was a german, a french couple, a crazy guy from California, who swore that they rigged the election, and these Brit girls. We got on the topic of Nepolean Dynamite and how it reflected Utah and mormon culture. I ended up explaining to them what a bodaggit was. It was pretty funny trying to put it in less offensive terms. But I finally explained as a peice of poop. We all had a good laugh.Another funny thing happened today, we were walking down the street and a girl(we thought at first) said in English in a deep manly voice said" hello boys" and grabbed Paul in his special place. We then realized that it was a transvestite. Paul screamed and we laughed. That was the most action Paul had seen in two years.We went to the island of Ometepe, like I said in my last email. We stayed in this great hotel that was really nice with a fan. It only was $3 a night. We hired a guide that took us up an inactive volcano at 3 am. It was probably the hardest hike that any of us had ever done. It was through the rain forest. There were howler monkeys and spider monkeys every where. When we got to the base, our guide told us that we could buy water there. The restaurant had run out of bottles that they would reuse and fill with their own purified water. Ty didn't like the idea of "purified water from the restaurant" which was probably a good thing, and I didn't like the idea of not having very much.We hiked to another town and bought all of the bottled water that they had, a whopping four bottles. We then hiked up where Paul had bought some of the reused bottled water. We started at the base and it was incredibly hot and humid. Here is a tip, don't come to a rain forest during the rainy season, it is very muggy. It however got cooler as we hiked higher. After the first KM we were asking if we were half way there. It turned out that the hike was around 8 miles round trip. They greatest part was that our guide was in middle school so he hiked super fast because he had to get home to a school project. It ended up taking us six hours. They greatest part was that it was raining and incredibly muddy, we fell on our butts all the way down. On the way up, our guide also got lost! We had to hike around a bit to find our way. It was alright because it was worth it. When we got to the top, there was an awesome lake in the crater and the crater was full of jungle. Of course we had to go swimming. We then had to use a rope to get up the crater. It was a great adventure. They told us that last month there were an american and brit that refused to take a guide and fell off a cliff. They had the army search and two weeks later found their clothes and bones that had been picked by vultures.Right now we are in Granada a very colonial city in Nicaragua. Awesome place, it reminds me of Europe. We are going to Jimotepe tomorrow because they are in fiestas, which means bull fighting and bull runs. ty also leaves tomorrow by himself to Costa Rica and to the states. We are sending home souvenirs with him.Well have a good time and we will write next time from Honduras.