ISLA OMETEPE - Picture this... you're sitting on a covered porch on a beautiful Nicaraguan island in the center of a gigantic lake looking out over a gorgeous bay with an active volcano in the distance.  You're having some drinks, you're making new friends, you're laughing and joking and having a great time... everything is perfect.  And then the unthinkable happens... you're out of rum!

What do you do??  You jump on a motorcycle and get some more, that's what you do!!  Actually, to be historically accurate, you jump on the back of a motorcycle driven by a half-in-the-bag limey named Tim and after nearly dumping it in the parking lot you eventually make your way in the dark down the rockiest, nastiest, sorriest excuse for a road to the local store - which is more like a dusty smelly shed full of random food stuffs and an alarming number of flip flops - to buy some more.  What did you think?

It was a recipe for disaster but peace and harmony is restored... note the 3.1 liter mega cola...



Folks are having fun again... Dave (in the green of course) really has to pee...



The rum is disappearing again but Geoff and Brynn don't seem to mind...



Then somebody finds a nasty spider... Tom tries to grab it...



Tim is overjoyed... yep, that's a big nasty hairy spider alright!



Then he tries to eat it... no Tim NO!



Tom takes a closer look... (with the help of Tim pushing his head ...



Playing with a tarantula while inebriated isn't the smartest thing one can do but in the end, remarkably, nobody was hurt.  The spider was a little frightened, and we were a little stupid, but we all survived.  Good times!

 

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