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So for vacation, Wendy went down to San Antonio. Melissa stayed here in Atlanta. I went to Costa Rica. Jeff went to Panama. Jen Hobby totally roughed it. Went to El Salvador. El Salvador, man. So cool. Nobody got El Salvador. Who goes to El Salvador? What? It's an El Salvador. Tons and tons of surfing and really, really great, amazing waves and breaks.

And so, yeah, I went down there with my best friend and we did this really, really active

vacation.

I have never worked out so much in my entire life as I did in the last week.

So we had a really great time and relaxed a little bit, slept a lot because we were so exhausted by the end of our days.

But it wasn't really like a party vacation at all because we were so spent.

But we had an amazing time.

We were in three different areas of El Salvador and we were with a guide the entire time.

I'll put all the information up online because we just felt in love with our guide.

I mean, he was just, his name was Roy and and he was just, like, so amazing and took such great care of us. Roy, I hope he has, like, some kind of cool South American last name. No, his last name is beers. Oh, very American. But he's very disappointing. He's from El Salvador. He grew up there and loves his country and just loved showing us

his country and just took really great care of us and took us everywhere with him for 10 days.

And it was just, it was an incredible, incredible trip. We went first in the mountains in this area

called Los Nouranos, which is, that means orange, right? The oranges. Narano? Yeah, I think so. Thank you. I've been working on my Spanish, but it's terrible. I bought Rosetta Stone as soon as I got home. You did? Yeah, I know. It's embarrassing that we only speak one language and most other countries they speak three or four. But anyway, so I was working on my Spanish a lot.

So we went to this beautiful area in the mountains, tried mountain biking, which I suck at, like, horribly, and kind of got injured the first day.

And I was like, okay, no more mountain biking.

Like, this is not cool.

And then what else did we do, horseback riding through these, like, coffee plantations on three different volcanoes, had lunch at the top of a volcano one day after we got there on horseback. I mean, just beautiful views and vistas. And I'll put all the pictures up once we get it together. Is it dry? It's dry right now. They're rainy season to September and October. So usually like November, December, January. It's really green and lush. But at this point of the year, it's getting really, really hot. I mean, you know, 90 to 93 degrees every day. And so we did the mountain thing. Oh, hiking did this like really, really difficult hike. I can't even believe we signed up to do it,

that kind of thing. And then, while we were at the beach for six days learning to surf.

I can't actually say that I know how to surf, but I was learning to surf and learning so much

about the sport and the ocean and how tied to nature it all is. And it was a fantastic trip.

But I have more strawberries and cuts and bruises and bumps all over my body than I did when I was a little kid, like playing in the neighborhood and like falling off bikes and playing softball and all that stuff growing up.

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