Food poisoning and Apoyo Lagoon

As you can tell from the title, today was not our best day. I woke up with stomach pains and was generally not feeling well. Devin's food poisoning set in later but was much worse. Eduardopicked us up at 9:00 to start our city tour of Granada. We made it to the first museum before Devin was sick and had to run to the bathroom. We tried to continue the tour for a few minutes and then decided to visit the pharmacy and head back to the hotel instead. We took a nap until noon and then went to the Apoyo Lagoon which is a lake in the crater of a volcano. Devin was still feeling awful but we thought he might feel OK lying down in a hammock at the beach; he ended up spending the entire time lying on a rock bench reading. I was feeling better, except for occasional stomach pain, and I had a great time snorkeling. The bottom was all rock which made it kind of painful wading out. Most of the rock was covered in fine algae. I saw a couple kinds of fish, one was only a couple inches long, the body was translucent, and it had a neon greenish-yellow stripe down the side. The first fish I saw had a black line down the side and also black splotches on the skin and ranged from a couple inches up to 6 or 8 inches. I got to follow a couple of this type of fish around as they followed a school of smaller fish that they were snatching up for meals. The last fish was bigger and had a pan fish shaped body with black dots down the side. I only swam in water that was about 10 feet deep because after that the bottom dropped off really quickly. I tried swimming down a couple of times and I saw fish as they disappeared into their holes in the side of the drop off and some sea weed. I checked on Devin a few times but he stayed lying down the entire time. I had mushed plantains with fried cheese covered in cream for lunch and then we headed back to the hotel.

Devin stayed in bed but I went down to the streets because they were celebrating Fieste de San

Roque and had bulls running down the street as well as lots of people walking or riding horses down the street. I tried to walk down the street by myself but didn't like all the attention I was getting as a single female walking down the street so I went back to the hotel and read with Devin. We went to bed really early and hoped that Devin felt better in the morning.