Laguna de Apoyo

January 24th

Today we took a day off to rest and went on a tourist shuttle with some of the friends fromt the hall to the Laguna de Apoyo.

It is so nice and relaxing there.

It's actually this huge lake I guess you could say sitting ontop of an active volcano.
I kept having these random thoughts of this movie called Dante's Peak where there were some people swimmig in something similar and the volcano erupted, but no, it was really fun lol. The water was perfect. We Kayaked. At first it was rough. Viviana and I crashed into a tree and some rocks (it was so funny) but after that it was smooth sailing. We just needed to get in sync.  I did my bible reading in a hammok near the water and Alana and I decided to walked around to the other hotel resorts up there and bought some really good nicaraguan food. Alana had shredded pork, plantanes and salad. I had fried chicken, platntanes (maduros) and salad. It was sooo good. The chicken was so different. Alana thought is was fish. I was just confused, because it was a flavor that I have never tasted before....a real chicken. In the states, our meat has so many perservatives and fillers in it we don't even know what real meat taste like.

This chicken was AMAZING. It was so moist and crispy on the outside, and the plantanes were so fresh....yumm.

Today was a much needed day.

When we got home, we showered and went straight to the meeting and the meeting was reallly nice. I gave a talk and a demostration so I was busy tonight. Tomarrow the girls (Jamilia and Alana) are going to the floating KH to do service with an missionary couple and I'm going out with the group to do my studies. Can't wait to hear there expierences! Goodnight.