Nicaragua...or BUST!!!

We have been in Placencia for four nights now, and have REALLY begun to enjoy the pace of life here. For fear of wanting to stay forever, we decided that it was high time to get the rock out of here!!!

Our time in Placencia was SUPER chill, in part due to the chill atmosphere here, the cost of the Belize in general, and partially due to a wicked ear infection that Lizzy developed from too much time in the water. Poor thing...apparently the doctor was winging when he took look inside her ear canal due to the exorbitant amount of blood and yuck that had developed and the state of hear ear in general.

Despite those factors, we managed to enjoy our time, relaxing, walking the path into town, doing a bit of fishing, and a LOT of swimming. We ate good food, played with the local children, enjoyed the mellow atmosphere that prevails around here, and generally just CHILLED out after a couple of weeks of traveling.

We decided that it is time to get moving, as we are about 14 hours from Guatemala City, and still have some sites that we would like to visit between here and there. Therefore, we are back on the road on our way north, and eventually west, and then back south to get to Guatemala City and Antigua, where I will meet up with Christina and Lizzy will hopefully meet up with Sean and Erin again for the coming week.

We are staying about 15 feet from the sea under a couple of palm trees on a beautiful stretch of beach just north of the Placentia Center (if you can call it that).