La vacación se acabó

Well it is Lunes Santa. The vacation has finished, and it went really well. The beach vacation was perfect. We were picked up bright and early Thursday morning by the International Couple. We hit the grocery store for food supplies (obvioucsly) and then set out on Carretera Viejo Leon. Pochomíl is only about an hour away, so soon we were stuck in the traffic of everyone heading to the beach. Without much delay, however, we made it to our beach house. Our beautiful beach house. We were truly on vacation. Oh, what is that? You want to see where we were? Well you can acutally look at pictures and rent it yourself at this website. Paradise, yes that is correct.
Our Thursday, Friday and Saturday consisted of lots of time in hammocks, rum and coke, sand castles and jocote (a little sweet fruit here). The beach was about 200 yards from the porch. We didn't even wear sandals to get there! The waves were intense. The slow sloping playa made for the perfect walk into the ocean. You were never too deep, and the water would come and greet you. Evidently most of Managua heads to Pochomíl for Semana Santa. We were further down the beach than the mass of people, so it wasn't too crowded where we were. Of course, we could just look to the right and see the line of people stretching from the waves to the cabanas. A long continous string of people in standing in the water or by the water or under the shade in whatever clothes they had on. It is a fact that most don't even wear swimsuits to the beach. I mostly took real film pictures (yes! real film!) but here are a few of the sunset over Pochomíl.