Dennys I miss you!

Oh how I miss the Minnesota Twins. I get to see the stats in the paper sometimes and even saw a few minutes of a game at my house! Thank you for all of the updates. Its just not the same hearing about the excitement and not getting to be there. I miss the Twins, Bert, the hormel row of fame, Twingo, dome dogs, more dome dogs, and free tickets.

Last weekend was full of fun. Jeff and I went to Masaya with my fam. Masaya is the next biggest town near my pueblo. We went to 2 mercados. One was the old mercado which was really clean, selling arts and crafts, food, clothes, and hammocks. The other mercado, known as the mercado, was full of whatever you could wish to buy. So many shoes and clothes, mosquito nets, shampoo, watermelon, fish, and more. Everything. When people own a pulperia, a small store, they go to this mercado to buy all of there supplies. It was interesting, and kind of scary at the same time. There were so many people jammed in there and you could be robbed very easily.

On sunday we went to the family farm which is much more like a jungle than a farm. There are coconut trees, other fruit trees, an avacado tree, and many many many plants. We drove there with my dad who is an amazing driver. He puts the car in neutral when we are not going up a hill. Its sort of scary actually. But on our way back from the farm, we got a flat tire. Fixing it included trying to put on a different tire which I am still unsure why we didnt use it, trying to blow up the flat tire with a pump that they tried to get power by connecting it to a power line, going into some random persons house to use the power, which wasnt strong enough, and finally walking home while my dad rolled the tire to the next biggest town to have it fixed and put back on the jeep. All in all, this took about 2....3 hours. But everyone was in a good mood the whole way through, and it was more funny than anything.

All in all, a good and productive weekend. Only a few hours a day of sitting and doing nothing, and going to bed really early. Jeff and I got to sleep in a twin bed together, which actually is more comfortable than it sounds. The monkeys decided to take the weekend off and didnt wake us up at 5:30 like they usually do. That was sweet of them.