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The next day when we all woke up, mom, dad and us kids, went to go searching for the Farmer's Market. We thought we knew where it was, but we searched and could not find it. Since we could not find the Farmer's Market we hung out in the town square. In the town square there is a park, so us kids entertained ourselves with that. There was a guy selling fresh orange juice off the street in a cart. He yelled "Jugo, Jugo." Jugo means juice in Spanish, but you would not pronounce it jugo, you would pronounce it hugo, because in Spanish "j" always says "h." Enough with the Spanish lesson, we decided to buy some of his juice. The guy had a machine thing on his cart, he put the orange on a part of the machine, then spinned a wheel. Out came fresh juice right out of the orange. The guy put a pinch of sugar in the juice, then put all the juice he had just squeezed into a bag, he tied the bag and put a straw in the top. We all took turns taking sips. Yum! it was one of the best juices I had ever had! So, if you ever see someone selling fresh orange juice, you should really buy it, if its ten dollars, I still think you should buy it.
After that we went to a chocolate museum, it was pretty small, but it held delicious stuff! We tried chocolate tea, which was delicious! My parents tried different kinds of liquor, like mint liquor, chocolate liquor, and ginger liquor. The chocolate museum sold packets of the chocolate tea, so of course, we bought some. On our way out of the chocolate museum we spotted some open tents, selling fresh fruit to CDs. We went over to see if this area was what we hoped it was, the farmer's market, but we soon found out that this was not what we had wanted. Afterwards, we decided to keep searching for the farmer's market, we asked people where it may be, and finally we had found it! We would not have found the farmers market if it were nott for all the people that gave us directions. Why was this, because the farmers market was behind a restaurant! The farmers market was surprisingly indoors! The farmers market was almost sold out, so we did not have much to choose from, the food in the farmers market was delicious, even though we had barely had anything to choose from.
Later that day, we took a taxi to see the Statue Of Jesus. The Statue Of Jesus was on a big hill. I think it was a hill because it was definitely not a mountain, or was it a mountain? Oh, I know it was a big camel lump coming out of the ground. No, that wouldn't do. I guess I will just stick to the big hill, oh but it seemed like a mountain, no it was a hill, just forget it. When we got to the top of the hill/mountain, the taxi dropped us off. To get up to the statue we had to walk up a gazillion steps. I wonder why the owners of the land where the statue was did not add an elevator or escalator. Once we finally made it up all the treacherous stairs, we were all grateful about it. At the area where the statue was, there was a big deck. On the deck was the statue. Off the main deck area we could see a beautiful view of the city, and the jungle, and the ocean. When I looked up at the statue it looked like it was about to fall down on me. But, when I showed mom she said, it was just the clouds moving really fast. On the deck there was a little room with pictures and little statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. On the deck there were more stairs you had to go up in order to touch and look at the Statue of Jesus a little closer. I liked the Statue of Jesus, it is humongous and gray. We got a family photo in front of the deck and admired the magnificent view off the deck!
We got to get ice cream from Eskimo, an ice cream place that was popular in Nicaragua. We were fortunate that we did not have to walk very far to get the goodness of ice cream, Eskimo ice cream was only across the street from our place we were staying. In the front of the ice cream place there was a sign that pictured all the sundaes they sold, the sundaes looked extra fun! The sundaes were fun because there was candy on them making them look like people and such. When we all told our parents what we wanted from the ice cream place we headed to the indoor playground inside Eskimo. The playground was small and simple, but small and simple never means not fun! When the lady at the counter in Eskimo made our sundaes we went outside to a table and started chomping. Mine had oreos in it, so I was licking the oreos that fell with a little bit of ice cream on the side of my bowl. The story I am about to tell you is gross, not to mention extra bug gross. I was picking off the little bits of oreo off my plate and put this one in my mouth. I chewed it for about 20 seconds, then thought this sure does not taste right. I took it out of my mouth and looked at it, it was a live fly! Eww! I was so very grossed out. The fly was even still alive after taking the treacherous 20 seconds of being tossed around in a mouth with nice white chewing teeth. The fly had a damaged wing, I am not sure if the fly died later that day.
After ice cream Mom, Levi, and I went on a walk and went into a coffee/chocolate shop. The coffee shop had some chocolate milk, so mom got me and levi chocolate milk, and mom got chocolate milk with espresso in it for her. The chocolate milk was delicious, and oh, did I forget to mention that it was homemade, and homemade things are so good! I am sure mom liked her espresso chocolate thing, cause adults seem to like (gross and bitter no matter how much sugar is in it) coffee.
For dinner we went to a place called Juanitas. Juanitas was a restaraunt that had typical Nicaraguan food. In Central America they do plates. The restaurant will give you options of what you want on your plato (plate in Spanish), you just tell them what you want and they will plop it on the plate. We got a plate with only plantain chips, a plate with pork, steak, and chicken, and a plate with salad. That food would have come on 1 plate, but my dad told the waitress (who was the Juanita) we wanted everything on seperate plates. There would have been some salad on that plate with chicken, some plantain chips on a plate with pork, and some possibly beans and rice somehere in the mix. Juanitas wasn't super fancy. It was owned by a Nicaraguan family. Juanitas was in front of the people who owned the restaurants house, We have noticed this is typical in some places in Central America.
After our good, filling dinner we went to the town square. The town square had a big playground in it which was awesome for us kids! It also had a big cathedral. In Nicaragua there are a lot of cathedrals. I was excited about the many cathedrals in Nicaragua, because in 3rd grade we spent awhile learning about cathedrals and I never thought I'd ever see one! We were playing at the park for a while when something awesome happened! It was December, so to our surprise Nicaragua did a lot of celebrating, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot. A lot of their celebrating had to do with Jesus's birth. A float went by with the Virgin Mary on it. A lot of people were chasing the float excitedly. We watched the commotion, also excited! After the float went by, there was a guy holding a cardboard bull that had sparklers on it. Ok, holding a cardboard cow with fire on it, is definitely not a wise decision, but it was fun to watch! After all the Christmas commotion we got back to playing at the park, then went back to our condo we were staying at.
What a crazy day that was. Farmers market hunting, Jesus statue on the hill/mountain, ice cream, chocolate milk, Juanitas Resturaunt, cathedral, park and December commotion. Love it!
The Next day we left, and went to a place in Nicaragua called Popoyo. But that exciting story will have to wait till next time!
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