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We set off from San Juan Del Sur and caught a bus to a place called Rivas, there we had to get on a bus to Granada, it was the worst bus ride ever!!Not kidding!� They crammed as many people as was physically possible onto that bus. It was boiling hot, and we had to stand up, there were 3 people crammed onto the seats that are designed for 2people, then people standing in the aisle, but i couldnt even stand up straight because there was so many people around me, so i had to lean back and just hold on with my arms and hope i didn�t go flying down the bus! Not good, so it was lke that for about an hour, then eventually people started to get off and i managed to grab a seat.It was also a bit dodgy because our bags had to go on top of the bus, so i wasn�t convinced that we would ever see them again but...it all worked out ok. We got to Granada ok and then caught a taxi to our hostel.� Its actually really nice here.� Theres a little open air central bit and the rooms go around it, except on one side theres sofas and hammocks and stuff.� There�s also a little swimming pool (i really do mean little) but its quite cute! They do really good breakfast here, the pancakes with fruit are amazing!! So Colleen and I got a double room the first night we were here, which was quite expensive really for what it was, because it was bunk beds in a tiny little room and a couple of cupboards.� That was the first night, then the second day, we saw this leaflet for a hotel thing about 20mins away from granada and it was on the edge of a volcanic crater lake thing so it was $10 a night for the dorm so we decided to go there. We caught the bus at 10 and had all day there, they had kayaks and innertube things to go in the lake with, and there was also a floating platform which you could lie on, or jump/dive off etc so it was amazing there!!� Because it was a crater it meant that it went really deep really quickly so you could dive and stuff and it was about 20ft deep so no need to worry!! I got a bit burnt there though b ecause, something about the sulphur in the water made it easier to get burnt or something so... We had a really nice dinner there too. So that was actually a really good day, we just chille dout in the water and by the bar thing so... :)� All was good until we went to go to bed. Colleen and I were the only ones in the dorm as it turned out, because Katy and Kevin got a double up in the main house bit, so we�re getting ready to go to sleep etc and Colleen goes to get something out of her locker when suddenly she screams and jumps back about 10ft and is like....there�s a Scorpian by my locker. We�d turned the lights off and stuff though so we could only see it when we shined the torches on it. So i�m on my bed so i turned my torch on and looked at it and yeh sure enough there was this little scorpian sat there. It wasn�t a very interesting looking Scorpian though to be fair, it was� just grey and fairly small but...still. Big enough to sting if it wanted to. So then we got really freaked out and were both dying to go to sleep but obviously didn�t want to go to sleep with that thing in our room but there wasn�nything we could do! We couldn�t kill it, because that was mean and we didnt have anything to kill it with but then, everytime we took the torch off him he�d start running around! First he ran under my bed so i was terrified then he ran back under�my bed and ran over to Colleens bed, so he sat under there for a while so she ran over to my bed so we were sat on my bed for ages just watching him. Then we turned the light off for a second and he was gone!!!But we had no idea where he had gone!!� So we searched around for him for ages but we couldn�t see him anywhere!!! So now we were noth freaked out and really really tired so Colleen went back to her bed and we got a little bit of sleep but we both kept waking up thinking that he was gonna be in our beds so that was an aweful nights sleep!!!So in the morning, we still couldn�t see him and we were like ok well we�ve got to leave by 10 anyway so, i packed up my bag and stuff, put it on my back, went up to reception, paid my bill and everything, the whole tie i had my ad on my back cos it�s a pain to get back on if i take it off! So we climb back on the bus to come back to Granada and the guy puts my bag down next to Colleens, she jumps up and the stupid scorpion is on my bag!!It had huddled itself just where the zip joins the back of the bag so i had just been carrying it round with this stupid poisonous thing next to my shoulder for like half an hour!! So anyway the guy got it out and killed it...but now i�m paranoid about Scorpions!!We got back to the hotel yesterday and didn�t do very much! We went for a walk about the city and stuff so that was good. The we went out for dinner and i had the biggest burger i�ve ever seen in my life, it took up most of a large plate so...� This morning, we bought our tickets for Honduras so we leave for there early tommorrow morning! We�re doing a tour this afternoon of the little islands in the lake in Nicaragua so that should be good! Well that�s it for now!!
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