With my parents in town visiting Nicaragua, we're taking advantage of getting to know some new places along with them. It always seems that we get out the most and explore new places when we have visitors. So today we explored the nearby town of Granada, a neat colonial town with plenty of old buildings some of which have been beautifully restored and painted in bright colors and others that look a little worse for wear. After grabbing an iced coffee in our favorite local spot in Granada, Espressonista, we headed out for a stroll with 2 kids and our parents. Despite only being 10am, the sun was strong and we soon overheated and had to rethink our plan. A toddler and baby in strollers in the heat can only go on for so long. We took a break in the town plaza under a tree and decided we head in the car a few minutes away to an area called Isletas. Granada is on a huge lake, Lake Managua, and within the lake are 300-something small islands, some of which are inhabited and others which are tiny bits of land with nothing more than some birds and trees. We had no idea what we'd find but it beat the idea of dragging the kids through the hot streets of town. Being that it was Easter, we drove the troves of people cooling off in the lake, sitting by the lakeside enjoying street food, and having what appeared to be an all-day party. We finally made it to the peninsula that leads out to the Isletas and found a quaint restaurant which offered little boat rides through some of the islands.
We spent about 30 minutes weaving in and out of beautiful little narrow waterways giving us great views of the mountains around us. Eli just sat quietly taking it all in, Isi sat on my lap eating Cheerios and we admired the picturesque landscape around us.
You can't see it in this picture above but as we went past these lilypads in the boat, we happened upon a pig, yes, a pig, swimming happily through the pads. He stayed there frolicking while we ate our lunch occasionally getting all tangled up in the lilypads. That image kept us laughing throughout the day.
Afterwards we all enjoyed delicious fresh fish for lunch before heading back.
We spent about 30 minutes weaving in and out of beautiful little narrow waterways giving us great views of the mountains around us. Eli just sat quietly taking it all in, Isi sat on my lap eating Cheerios and we admired the picturesque landscape around us.
You can't see it in this picture above but as we went past these lilypads in the boat, we happened upon a pig, yes, a pig, swimming happily through the pads. He stayed there frolicking while we ate our lunch occasionally getting all tangled up in the lilypads. That image kept us laughing throughout the day.
Afterwards we all enjoyed delicious fresh fish for lunch before heading back.
So glad we took that boat trip. It was cool and loved seeing Eli so engrossed in it all. And another yummy lunch.
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