In the morning I woke up early and took a walk around Leon - stopping at Pan Paz bakery for some chocolate croissants to take with us for the ride to Granada. We transfered in La Perla's van leaving at 10am and were in Granada at Hotel Terrasol (we stayed there last year) at noon. We spent the next two days walking around Granada and had drinks and dinner with some friends we made when were there there last year.
We had good food at Nuestro Mundo (on the south side of the square), excellent steaks at El Zaquan, ice cold beers at O'Shea's, and good coffee at the Euro Cafe.
Day 19: Going home
At about 5am we were awoken to noises out on the street that initially sounded like sheep being herded down the street. Then we started to hear horns so I looked out the window and there was a huge parade of people. Later it was explained to me that it was the "Baby Jesus noise maker" parade and it goes on for 9 days before Christmas - Only in Nicaragua would such a thing happen!
Our taxi took us to the airport and our !:15pm flight left right on time. Unfortunately once in Houston we were subject to a random search at customs. They asked us a LOT of questions about our trip and hand searched all our luggage taking about 45 minutes but fortunately we had plenty of time to make our connecting flight.
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