We got to San Juan Del Sur around 3 pm and went for a walk along the main strip in town. Our first stop was the ice cream shop on the beach which sells ice cream for dangerously cheap prices. I realized that I could buy a two scoop ice cream cone for 1 dollar. I'm sorry, pardon me. Did you say two scoops of ice cream for 1 dollar? Wow, where do I sign? I took advantage of the cheap ice cream. I'm glad that the town that I'm living in does not have a cheap ice cream shop as well because I would devastate ice cream at alarming rates. Anyways, after eating ice cream we started walking around San Juan looking for a surf board that I could buy. We stopped at 5 or 6 different surf shops before finding a surf shop that had a board that looked like it could be a winner. We made a note of the board and walked up the street to some other shops to see if there were any others for sale. After some more browsing we realized that the board found previously was the one.
We started heading back to the surf shop to make the deal when an old man (perhaps 80 years of age, and quite possibly blind) came running out of his barber shop, grabbed my cousin and told him that he must let him cut his hair. My cousin had already contemplated on getting a hair cut and decided that it was meant to be. 45 Minutes later, my cousin had his hair cut and a shave with a straight razer. Nice. We went back to the surf shop and I bought my first surf board for $200, what a deal. It needed some repairs and fixes so we told them that we would pick it up in the morning before we left. After finding me a surf board we all went down and had Mexican food at a restaurant on the beach. It was delicious. I had chicken fajitas which were exactly what I needed. We walked around San Juan for a bit and took in some of the city, had some more ice cream of course and then headed back to the hostel. I was in a ridiculous room that was built on top of the hostel in what seemed like an afterthought. The room looked like it had been thrown together with extra supplies that had been laying around. The room had a T bar ceiling that was right below the tin roof and had Styrofoam ceiling tiles which would lift off and rattle around in the wind. This wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't the windy month for Nicaragua down here.. but... it's the windy month haha. So the wind whipped through the room all night blowing around the ceiling tiles like wind chimes, never-the-less I had a pretty good sleep.
In the morning I had a great breakfast and went and picked up my new surf board. We strapped it to the jeep and headed back to Playa Gigante. We got back at around noon, and I cleaned off my new board. I put some new wax on it and attached the leash and it was time to take it for a spin. We went down to Playa Amerilla and surfed for the afternoon. I love the board. It felt so good to be on a board that is mine. I am going to paint my surf board so that it looks awesome, and during the surfing sessions today I got to thinking about Halloween for some odd reason. Anyways, as some background. For Halloween, for those of you who don't know, my roommates and I ordered one piece suits from China and were the Jamaican Bobsled team. So I got to thinking and decided that I think I will paint my surf board like the Jamaican Bobsled and name it cool runnings because that would be awesome. Anyways, surfing on my new board was a blast. I got pretty close to catching a few waves except I was too early and I got tossed. It's kind of fun too though to be honest. I'm getting better at holding my breath that's for sure. It really makes me feel small though, when I get tossed around in a wave. Just blows my mind how much power those waves have. I can't wait to catch my first wave on my new board. It will be glorious, I just know it. But, I'm going to sign off on this one, we're going to have an early day tomorrow to try and get a bunch of work done. I am going to put a list of links to all of the picture albums that I've put up so that anyone who wishes to look at them can do so easily. It will be on the bar on the right hand side underneath the polls.
Speaking of the polls, it looks like I might be keeping my beard. I'm looking pretty homeless these days, I'm not going to lie.
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