The week in Managua was great. The city is a cross between the modern and the ancient. It was not unusual to see a horse-drawn cart on the same street with cars and buses. We were able to visit Granada and Lake Managua on Friday morning . . . I've included a couple of pictures of the beautiful lake and the central square of the town.
A short, ten-hour bus ride yesterday brought us back to El Salvador! Although that sounds like a long trip, it was more than 4 hours quicker than the trip to Nicaragua. The two border crossings went much faster--I think they don't care as much once they know you're heading "home." Even so, the 3:00 a.m. wake up call was enough to leave us totally exhausted when we got home.
It was great to be back our church this morning. We've been on the road so much that we've missed worshiping with our brothers/sisters at VidaNueva. Guillermo, our Spanish tutor, met us at church and afterwards we took him to Las Fajitas, our favorite Mexican restaurant. Amazingly, we've finished our first "semester" of language school. It definitely won't be our last "semester" as we still have much to learn before we will be able to communicate clearly.
We have lots to do between now and Wednesday morning when we fly to California to spend 10 days with Daniel, Shannon and Maleia. We will also drive to Fort Bragg next weekend to visit Jonathan.
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