san juan del sur

the past two days have been spent at the pacific coast beach town of san juan del sur, nicaragua. i came down yesterday with 5 people i met in granada. one of my buddies rode down on our chicken bus with a chicken at his feet. town is quaint, a little more to do here than monterrico, big surfing town, attracting people from all over the world. electricity is shut off for half the day, so its a bit tough to work around, although the locals are well used to it. this morning we headed off to playa maderas, about 30 min in truck through rivers and jungle. beach is quite pretty, horseshoe shaped, and about 25 other surfers. had boards rented for the whole day, though only to the waves for about 2 hrs - quite fun. half took lessons, other half of us did what we could. spent this morning in a phone conversation with the bus station in rivas, trying to change my ticket so i dont have to go all the way back to managua to get to san jose, costa rica. we will see bright and early tomorrow morning how that conversation went - if i have an assigned seat or not. once im in san jose, ill make a decision to move onto panama or stay there for a bit. flight is out of costa rica end of next week. ive met a good sweets partner in charlie, and the ice cream + sprinkles is cheap enough here that we have slightly indulged ourselves.