Today is el 19 de Julio, a huge festival in Nicaragua. The students have been on vacation all week, and this festival is bigger than our fourth of July easily. I is the celebration of when the Sandinistas took power during the revolution.
Since it was a holiday, apparently the entire country heads to the capital of Managua, so we would have had nothing to do in matagalpa. We decided to head to Leon and see the beach. Out hostel is really nice, and we arrived there bright and early at seven am, and they were actually able to let us into our rooms. We were at the beach by nine, and it was fantastic. It was the perfect temperature outside, and the beach was quiet and we set up camp at a hostel restaurant on the beach where we were able to drink $1 beers and relax in their hammocks all day. We spent over six hours just playing in the waves, collecting shells, and walking on the rocks by the beach. We are now all slightly sunburnt and exhausted from our relaxing and fantastic day. It was a much needed easy day.
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