Todavia tenemos temblores

If you can't tell =), my Spanish is getting better.   ( We still have tremors)

Anyhow, this is the promised update.  We still have tremors and mild eruptions.  But, not in my department of Leon so they brought all of us home to Leon last Monday but the volunteers from Chinandega, which is the department in which the active volcano, San Cristobal, is located are still on evacuation.  It is one week today and I am sure they are all more than ready to go back to their sites.  The first couple of days were sort of fun in a real nice hotel in Granada, but since then they have been sent to live with other volunteers or training site families so its not as cushy as that nice hotel, Hotel Alhambra, for any of you who are familiar with Granada.

BTW, while I was in Granada I ran into a woman from Denver.  I noticed her because her golden retriever was stretched out on the tile floor, panting while lying down.  She was shocked that I knew it was a golden as most people in Nicaragua ( with good cause) don't know the breed.  I was a little sorry for him, he looked so hot, but she says he is getting used to the change in temp and I am sure she gives him a cool place to rest at home.  We had a nice chat.  She retired early from some very highly paid job with a .com or IT firm and is looking for a place to live for a while.  She rented her home in Wash Park in Denver, so I am sure she is doing fine financially.  I promoted Peace Corps response to her with her IT skills but not sure what she'll do.  We exchanged Emails...don't know if we'll stay in touch or not but she seems like a real nice person.  Her name is Amanda so of course, she is very cool.

Anyway, can't say much here as we don't have electricity right now and my battery is runnng down.

Bottom line, I leave in a week for a week in US with my sis for serveral days and then she and I are driving to PA to meet up with our kids, grandkids, their families and our brother John and his daughter.  BTW, if you are in Ithaca, NY in early November, he is doing the musical/ play 1776 -Days of Revolution, which I am I coming home early to see....it will be worth it !!!! And on the closing night, Nov 6 we are having a bash to celebrate the reelection of Obama !!!!  Wouldn't miss that for all the world. 

Battery almost gone...no fan, very hot, going to take another shower.....

Pat