Day Three

Caleb's lack of interest in Spanish classes inspired Nicholas to suggest a field trip on Wednesday. We took a 'chicken bus' back up the curvy mountain road to Santa Clara and hiked to the top of the nose of the 'Indian Face'.

We passed scores of women collecting firewood we follwed the trail through corn and coffee groves besides tall trees laden with avocados. We climbed a small wooded observation tower at the summit where I suffered vertigo and Caleb threw paper airplanes.

On the way back down from Santa Clara we decided to catch a ride in the back of a pick-up truck- standing, as is custom in Central America. The second leg of the trip was in a 3 wheeled tuk-tuk taxi, where Caleb got to ride in the front seat. Unlike the tourist van, he had no car sickness issues this time down the steep curvy washed out road to San Pedro. Prior to this trip Caleb had thought that a mud slide was a kids ride.

That afternoon we headed back over to San Marcos where we were joined by our friends from the tourist van on the first day. I was impressed that all but one of the girls took the 30 foot plunge. I stuck to the 10' rock that day.

Buddah bar was closed that night. We settled on an Internet cafe and an ice cream.