Feliz Ano Nuevo - Blogabond

We didn’t do much the days between Christmas and New Years. Just hung around the house relaxing, continued Spanish lessons, English teaching, and Ryan working on the shed. It was a pretty quiet week in our house with Stefan and Anna gone traveling in Nicaragua with Stefan’s parents, leaving only Peter, Ryan and I in the house. The situation was the same in the other volunteer houses. Half of the volunteers have either left to go home for the holidays or are traveling in Central America.

On the other hand the volunteers who stayed in Granada for the break all decided to go to San Juan del Sur for New Years Eve, us included. But before we left for the beach on Thursday morning Ryan wanted to stop by the firework stands for more fireworks. Again he got a huge bag full of a variety of fireworks for only $10. When we arrived in San Juan del Sur Ryan was so excited to surf we went straight to the beach instead of into town. And OH BOY it was packed!! More than any other weekend we had been there before. We hung around for a while then decided to go into town to find the rest of the our volunteer friends and make plans for the night.

The town was just as packed as the beach. After walking up and down the five main streets of town a few times we finally found our friends. Later in the night we all went out to the beach for some drinks and to set off Ryan’s fireworks. There were tons of people with the same idea up and down the beach fireworks lighting up the sky and firecrackers lighting up our ears. After that we walked down to one of the popular bars on the beach called The Pier. They opened their patio so the party could extended from the bar to the water. We hung out there most of the night around a big bond fire talking and drinking. Though we didn’t have an official count down we knew it was midnight when a group of fire throwers started their show and a professional firework show started along with everyone else’s fireworks on the beach. Everyone one went crazy yelling Feliz Año Nuevo!

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ryan & debbrial on January 1, 2010 from San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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