We were fortunate to get away for a couple of days this week, largely because yesterday was, of course, America's Independence Day (and we didn't even watch the movie :-p).
So on Tuesday we were able to head over to Granada, which is on the coast of Lake Nicaragua*.
*which is the BIG lake east of Granada
Here we were able to take a boat tour around some of the small coastal island which typically each hold a house and some grounds and which each costs tens of millions of dollars (at least $80 million and up). There's also a small island in the middle of them all that a handful of monkeys live on. Our boat tour guide threw them a couple of limes, which for some reason they love to use as perfume (?!) and so we watched them as they acted as if they were in the shower, even though they were just rubbing lime juice all over themselves…
Then on the fourth we were able to visits Ometepe Island which you can see in the middle of the lake and which is the home of two volcanoes. The island is basically the two volcanoes with a small piece of land joining the two. It's a roughly hour long ferry ride across which only runs until mid afternoon so we only had a couple of hours on the island (no volcano hiking or anything :-p) but we saw some of the inland and some of the beaches (and another couple of monkeys).
