Nicaraguan Adventure - Day 5: We are the “Beasts” (12/31/10)

We get up and head over to La Terraza M, which happens to be attached to the place we plan on going to dinner (El Mediteraneo), for a delicious brunch; my club sandwich was different than what I would expect in America, but it was delicious and the empanada I got was sweet (honey inside?) instead of savory like I am used to. We then head to the cathedral during daylight hours to climb to the roof, however once we get there, they close the doors and kick us out right after we cross the threshold.

Breakfast is served! 

Why you gotta sneak up on me Mr. Lion? You scared me!

Hummingbird visitor at breakfast. Not a bad way to start the end of a year.

We then proceed to go shopping, trying to find a tshirt L wants; instead we buy some 1.75L bottles of FdC for taking home. We go home to drop the bottles off (I don't want to carry that around all day) and as we walk into the hostel, the staff see what we are carrying and just shout out “BEASTS!!!” (clearly our enjoyment of the FdC is noticed by them). We head back out and cannot find this shirt L is looking for. We came back again and asked the staff for info so he can find his shirt, I sit back and relax doing some Sudoku as I don't like being on a fools errand; he returns unsuccessful yet again. We go out for food and realize places run out/low on food or are closed early around here. So we find a place that is open, have some dinner ( I had some tamale type things) and pick up some sandwiches for later. We notice the cathedral is open again and try to go up to the top, however are informed its open for service and the top is still closed. Go back to hostel to shower and get dressed and have another FdC promotion, drinking the ½ and keeping the ¼ for later like last time.  

The only Rum one ever needs to drink. Tis tasty.

After finishing our sandwiches and rum, we head across the street to the Bigfoot hostel for the Warm-up party. We meet some people over there and then the staff announces a scavenger hunt (I do love scavenger hunts!), so we join with the people we've been talking to and set out to take pictures of the things on the list. IT was a great time/idea! Some of the items consisted of switching shirts with a  local, taking a pic of Jesus, etc.

Our list of things to do/find for the night. Lets get it started.

Our team. Americans and Dutch coming together for the dream team of scavenger hunts.

Got a picture with Jesus. If you remember, this was that little statue of Jesus I talked about the other day.

Break-dancing in the street. Check!

Dance with a mannequin lady. Check! Made me feel so small!

We got thirsty on our crawl so we stopped to get some beer.

Riding a lion. Dont mind if we do. Someone has to tame the beast!

As we complete items on the hunt, we realize its 1130pm, so we put that on hold and find a bar with spots for us to have a few drinks to bring in the new year. Our table gets some beers and a bottle of rum (its Nicaragua, so why not?) . At midnight, the streets go crazy with fireworks everywhere. We decide to abandon the hunt and just hang out the rest of the night before returning to the hostel (~1am).

Are you intimidated by this? We were. This is why we went into the bar :) hahah

Us playing in the street as the new year is happening. They just light fireworks in the middle of their streets. Not sure how safe it is but was cool as this was right outside of the bar we were drinking in. So we joined.

Rum and coke action. Ladies be jealous. Actually anyone not Luis should be jealous as he gets to taste the sweet nectar that is FdC. I drew the short straw so I get to drink the coke.