Snoozed through our alarms this morning, Heather, "because it was too cold to get out of bed", me, "because Milan and I were up half the night while you slept babe". Arrived to breakfast at 9:45 to find them out of pancake/waffle mix at that station, and out of eggs at the omelet station. A quick talk to the manager had them grabbing eggs from the other kitchen onsite and making more mix, both stations up and running in 5 minutes. Yesterday I thought the 11am pi...

Well, our morning timeliness has only slightly improved, we're up on time, but just barely :) Decidedly it's a lot more work to travel with 2 kids than by ourselves, and we are WAY slower than previously. We packed most of our stuff last night and only need to reorganize our backpacks this morning, so getting ready is quick, and we're down to breakfast by 8:15 with the need to leave the hotel by 9:15. The breakfast servings are huge, as we discovered ...

Our wake-up punctuality is digressing rapidly! Instead of 7:30am it's almost 9 by the time we roll out. Down to the hotel lobby for breakfast, we have 1 adult and 1 kid breakfast included in our room rate...we should have stopped there, instead we ordered another adult and kid breakfast and ended up with exactly 1 adult and 1 kid breakfast too many! The food portions were huge, and good quality food too. All the Trini's think I have a hard time understand...

This trip is getting off to a late start...usually it's 4-5 days in before we start getting tired and our morning wake up time starts to suffer...haven't even left the house yet and we're up an hour later than planned (yikes!). Not to worry, we scramble and leave only 7 minutes behind schedule. Gotta swing by the jobsite on the way past downtown and drop off some papers for one of my guys...10 minute detour, but my girls get to see my building up clos...

Things to know about driving in Nicaragua:-Things you're likely to see on the road and thus have to share the road with: 18 wheelers, other cars, trucks, SUV's, motorcycles, motorized tuk-tuks, bicycle-powered tuk-tuks, bicycles, walkers of all ages (3-80), backpakers, hitch-hikers, school children (lots of them), ATV's such as 4-wheelers, horse drawn buggies, ox-drawn carts, cowboys on horses, herds of cows, sheep, and goats, random wandering horses,...