Outside Of The Box Family

During our stay in Catarina we decided to check out Granada.  It was a particularly hot day so we were very pleased that the winds were blowing.   Once we arrived, we made the quick, and never once regretted, decision to take a horse and carriage tour ($40/90mins) ride through the town of Granada.   Having been a tour guide, trolley driver of Old Town Trolley in Key West, I am a big fan of sharing my thoughts regarding tours about the town.  They are WORTH IT!  You get to tour around town with a local guide and then later you can go back and further dive into specific locations that suit your fancy.  Hence the reason we agreed to take a horse and carriage tour.   Naturally there are always photo opportunities whenever you go on tour.  Our tour guide was kind enough to stop whenever I yelled with glee!  Who wouldn't want to have their picture taken by this ginormous LOVE sign right next to Lake Nicaragua.   Lake Nicara...

San Juan del Sur was so blazing hot and so North American, we were taken aback by our initial visit to Catarina.  We had been so used to a touristy town with English spoken everywhere and now we were in a true pueblo.  To find the place we were to call home for the week, the owner sent us a picture of her driveway (looked more like an alleyway to me), so that we could find it.   It's really neat how these pueblos are designed.  It's like a one story apartment building is made.  All the houses are connected to each other with a random driveway here and there to land, which the owner of this home owned.  And our place was somewhere in this driveway.  A cute one story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex with a pool situated in the courtyard and perfectly suited for our little family!  Oh the pool was FREEZING cold!  Well, it is in the mountains and the sun doesn't hit it all the time since it is inside the courtyard.   This town was much le...