Me gusta Tegucigalpa, me gustas tu

So for semana santa, sonya and I hid in trujillo, actually outside trujillo where we could camp at casa kiwi, this beautiful ploace on the beach. For the business, they asked us to work and we made a little money for the few days we served drinks and helped in the kitchen. Swimming, for probably or last time in the carribean, it was cooler than normal (a huge relief) and we saw a ton of small jellyfish. When the week came to an end we bolted for the capitol of Honduras, Tegucigalpa (what a mouthful) where we had a CS host waiting for us. She was a principal of a very exclusive bilingual school but a very cool 40 year old and authority figure. We went to some national museums with old christian art and contemporary honduran artists, a great mix, and beautiful discoveries. The second day we went to this giant Jesus statue on the hillside in a paek called Picacho, and went to this inhumane, pitiful zoo.
We left Tegucigalpa for Managua on the Tica bus, a very nicve airconditioned luxury bus (although the cheapest direct bus)... i think someone told me that it was for the poor people... wrong... totally gringoed out.
But we stayed with a couchsurfer just outside of Managua on the highway towards Masaya. He was a Swedish guy who just loved to live the good life. Every morning we had bagels with cheese fresh veggies, yogurt and tropical fruit. OJ and coffee, and this was ¨just what was around¨. He was the nicest guy and even came into the not so tourist friendly Managua with us for a day. One day we ventured to a smaller town called Masaya where we checked out its famous markets and mingled with the locals.
On our day in Managua with Tomas, we went to the nacional palace, in a very sketchy part of town where 10 year olds sniff glue and smoke cigarettes and hassle any outsiders. If I was alone I would have loved to be dropped in this neighborhood with no cash, just ten rolls of film and my camera, with a notebook and pen... it would be the poorest Ive ever seen a place and the visuals would describe a collapsing people... it could be very moving.
Any how, we left Managua yesterday and are in Leon, about an hour north and it has a nice mix of tourists and many locals, it is a pretty large town. Right now we are staying in a cute family owned hotel with a real homey vibed to the vibrantly painted rooms. Its a community kitchen so we are saving big cash.. Today we went to a really good museum called Fundacion Ortiz, with a ton of work. Some was classic European painters including Matisse and Picasso but alot of modern Nica adn other C.A. art that was really stunning and had the quality and diversity of many DF museums. Its back to the Pacific coast in a couple oif days to maybe surf but mainly soak up the rays.