Nicaragua trip, days two and three

We talked to a lot of people and did a lot of stuff, and most of it didn't end up being photographed, but that's life. 

Gabriel skated on the street...

...and in the very large suite that the hotel moved us into after the first night:

Gabriel and I also got haircuts at a great barber shop. I hadn't had my hair professionally cut since I was about eighteen, and Gabriel had never had it done. These guys were great:

This barber shop was not super fancy, and was full of regular locals, but it too had a cool courtyard garden:

Simone bought a new hat, and did a lot of writing and drawing:

She also used the king bed (in which we all four slept!) as a gymnastics mat. Here she does a chin roll, or something:

We had good food in Granada. I liked a dish called "ropa vieja" ("old clothes") and a kind of meat tamale called a "nacatamal". Here we are at a restaurant on the main drag from the cathedral to the lake, which has been pedestrianized and yet still seems to have a fair number of Nicas hanging out on it too:

Here's some part of the main square. I'm not sure exactly why we took this picture, but whatever, it shows something:

When Gabriel and I went out looking for skate spots we saw a team or club of bikers getting ready to go out for a ride. A second after I took this picture, their support van turned up. 

In this next shot, Gabriel is like, Why are you taking another picture of us out at another restaurant? And he's right; one of the downsides of hotel living is that you have to find a restaurant for every meal. This restaurant was by the lake, which is in that width of blinding brightness past the table of other diners. 

By the afternoon of the third day the kids were tired of walking around, so we took them to a "spa" at another hotel, which had an even bigger pool than ours, and we hung out for a while:

Simone drew and wrote:

Gabriel and I played ping-pong. He won.

We also bought a bunch of stuff, including some painted clay whistles in the shapes of little birds. Women were selling them everywhere. The most common thing men sold were sunglasses. Here's Nadia trying a little whistle out, with help from Simone:

And here's Simone blowing through one herself: