Trip to Cerro Negro and León

We left on Saturday evening to go to León. The plan was to go with the girl scouts to Cerro Negro on Sunday, then return to selva negra Monday night. We stayed in Hotel El Contnvento in León. the hotel is very nice, and so is the place where we went to dinner, Al Carbon. It is a very nice steak and coffee house in león. the atmosphere is nice, and the food was great.

The next day, we went to Cerro Negro to go volcano boarding. we left early in the morning, and met the girl scouts at the ranger's lodge. At the ranger's lodge, i was informed that we were going to be running down the volcano instead of boarding down it. I was dissapointed, because when i had gone last time, we had boarded down. It turned out that i find running to be more fun then boarding, because when you but your foot down, you can slide for a few meters before having to put it back down again.  when we got to the bottom, of the volcano, we took a group picture

it took us almost 40 minutes to get up the volcano, and that's without the wind that we had last time. when i went with the boy scouts, there was a wind that seemed to be desperately trying to fling us into the crater of the volcano and doom us to a really long hike up.

dad took two pictures from the bottom of the volcano, one facing each side. here they are

These pictures are in the exact same place, isn't it amazing? when we reached the top, the view was as amazing as i remember it. we were at the top waiting for the others to come, when Allison(one of the girl scouts) slid a good way down the mountain. we tried everything we could think of to get her back up, but nothing worked. so i decided to go down with her. I had a great time even though it was the two of us, and we ended up without water, we re-joined with the group about an hour later. after that, we went to León for lunch. and then we went to Managua.