Halloween, Not a Nicaraguan Holiday

It is quite clear that Halloween is not an accepted holiday in Nicaragua. Last week I saw more than one person wearing a shirt that took a stand against it. We stay clear of this topic in school as well since it has become such a controversial subject. Halloween is clearly a North American tradition and one that the people in Nicaragua clearly do not want to adopt.

In our apartment, we wanted to have some fun knowing it is a very colorful time of year back home with all the pumpkins and colorful leaves. So, we bought 2 watermelon to gut and carve. Since that was working well we also carved some passion fruit. See the results below.

On Sunday Dave, Joel, Carey and I went on a little scouting trip to find the road we will take for our 2 day bike trip/fundraiser at the end of November. We went on the motos to make the trip a little more adventurous... and adventurous it was indeed. Every mode of transportation gives you a different view of the country. Riding on the back of a moto gives you two views; to the right or to the left. It was a beautiful ride but we did run into a little bit of mud since we had a huge rain storm the night before.

At that point we took out a map to find out our options whether it was better to continue forward or turn around and go where we came from. We choose the second one which seemed to be a reoccurring theme of the day.

A little ways from Managua it was pouring hence the rain suits.

And the end of the story is we never did arrive at the place we will be biking; perhaps another day.