¡Estoy Aquí!

¡Hola amigos!

I figured it´s just about time for my first update. As many of you know, this first week I am here alone. I like to do that because then when the group gets here from Georgia, I have a lot less time to visit with friends because we´re working a lot and staying at a hotel further out of the city. Anyway, I decided to really look at this week as a vacation. No agenda, no alarm waking me up (which as you know, I ALWAYS have an alarm set), no urgency to get lots of stuff done each day. That being said, here´s what I´ve been up to...

The Flight
My flight was very uneventful, which I like. I breezed through OIA and then slept most of the first flight, which was to San Salvador, El Salvador. I flew TACA for the first time, and it was great. I didn´t notice many of the details, because I was sleeping hardcore on the flight... I even missed the in-flight food. So I´m not sure how it was... but the first mini-disaster was when I finally woke up in time for drinks, and I got a cup of coffee. After I put in my sugar and non-dairy creamer (disgust), I put the cup on the little tray in front of me. I don´t know why I didn´t put it on the one next to me, since I had two seats to myself. Anyway, of course right after that, since I was still in sleep mode, I went to move my leg, and I knocked the entire cup off the tray and onto my purse and carry-on. The coffee part wasn´t bad, because I soaked it up with the blanket I had... but the stickyness from the sugar would not wipe off. and it was on my legs and my purse. yuck. other than that, fairly uneventful.

For some reason, I figured the San Salvador airport would be nice, but it actually wasn´t. I think even the Managua airport is nicer. The bathrooms were really primitive, and I don´t think the air was on in the airport! but I was ony there for about 45 minutes until my next flight left. This flight was only about 50 minutes, yet I still managed to get some sleep in. I was EXHAUSTED from the waking up at 4:00 that morning. Again, uneventful flight, and then I was in Managua! After I got my bags and changed some money over, I was ready to leave. The way the airport is set up, there is this huge glass window for people who come to look in at the baggage claim area. So it´s really fun to find the person who´s waiting for you and wave.The strange thing is, this time there was no one waiting to pick me up.

ARGHHHH. I finished writing this post - it was about 18,000 more paragraphs, then something happened to the computer and it ALL GOT DELETED. I´m so mad right now. Yet I don´t want to take the time to type it all again. Maybe I´ll come back later today, after I´m not so hopping mad. To be continued....