Nicaragua

Well there have been a lot of changes in our plans and events that took place since my last post at Pangea. We took a Tica bus at 3 in the morning to Nicaragua. It started out great, fell asleep for like 3 hours (it was really spacious and luxurious) and woke up to breakfast. They gave us French toast sticks from Burger King which were AMAZING. Then reached the border at about 7. We were told the border was the best place to exchange money. Well we got off the bus and there were guys coming up to us trying to exchange money. Well Cass changed her money and i guy was trying to exchange mine but i was really skeptical so I was walking around trying to ask someone what the correct amount was. So the bus driver assistant looked at what the guy was exchanging for and said that it was correct so we both finished exchanging our money only to find out later that it WASN'T right and we lost a lot of money in the exchange. At this news, it was upsetting. But Cass already was having doubts about going to Panama so this put her over the edge. She said she didn't have money to go to granada and leon... a lady on the bus said it was expensive and said she was going to san juan del sur which was near the border, a beach town, and cheaper. Yada Yada Yada...4 hours after our bus trip starts we end up not getting back on the bus and going to the full way that we'd paid for with our ticket...taking a sketchy route straight to San Juan Del Sur from the border, booking 3 nights for the both of us at $25 total (actually like 4 a night each which is ridiculous!), and heading back to Costa Rica tomorrow. So...I was pretty upset and we were in complete disagreement, but unfortunately I wont be seeing as much of Nicaragua as I would have liked to and thought I was going to.
So...the last two days we've been here in an amazing little shop and beach town called San Juan Del Sur. We've lived amazingly cheap after our little incident. Of course with the cheap hostel, and then we bought groceries to make breakfast lunch and dinner all three days for $7.50 each. Tonight, however, is our splurge night and we're going to go out to a restaurant on the beach. They have a lot of cute, cheap shops so we visited them yesterday and then were able to rent a movie... 27 dresses... and watched it at our hostel which was an amazing luxury. Not to mention (fate i'm sure of it), when i turned on the tv they were letting us use to watch the movie...what was on but SEINFELD!!! So we watched the rest of the episode (when elaine eats petermans 28,000 slice of cake and george bought the frogger machine from his old restaurant) and then watched the movie. It was really fun.
This morning we rented bikes from our hostel and we rode to the next beach which was a really secluded little beach with almost no one there. It was a nice 45 or so minute bike ride through the hills of nicaragua, of course close to the coast, but it was really pretty. Downside...the bikes werent that great so it was really bumpy and my legs got tired because i couldn't raise the seat, change gears, and the pedals squeaked loud. It was still fun tho! Right now we're gonna go get a coffee drink then have our dinner and we're taking a bus out of here at 6:30 tomorrow and headed to Liberia, Costa Rica and Guachepelin.
Pura Vida!