Our next adventure on day 4 was out to Mombacho Volcano, where we opted to drive our own vehicle up the volcano (we had rented an SUV, totally recommend it!). You can read a full review on how to Mombacho right, at this TripAdvisor review I wrote. It's pretty thorough!
But, because it IS a volcano, the attendants at the entrance did a full inspection of our car and noticed that we had a bit of a leaky tire - which meant we got to go exploring to find a "Vulcanization", which is a garage, except also a house where people live. A lot of signage in Nicaragua is via scrap tire (and why not?) so we followed some direction down the road and found the home of Danny Jr, a 9 year old who filled our tires for C$26, which is about $1 USD. His mom came out to check on things and told us he was "her little worker" with a smile full of pride. If our kids ever choose to quip about chores, I'll be reminding them of Danny Jr.
Once we had air in our tires we went up Mombacho - halfway is a plantation for Cafe Las Flores, Nicaragua's equivalent to Starbucks, which offers a farm tour (didn't take it), and a canopy tour (totally rocked it). You can see some pictures from the canopy tour at our instagram.
Day 5 we went to San Juan del Sur, because it's totally worth the 3 hour drive, gorgeous en-route scenery and all.
Once we got there we set up camp & the babies got right to owning the beach. Below is a photo of Everlea's crawl marks - a baby equivalent to footprints. There was lots of mud-play and baby Jude even got a mouthful of sand, thanks to baby Everlea's bullying antics. Poor Jude.
There's sort of a free-for-all hippie camp I mentioned in another post that we just sort of jumped on board to. BYOH.
And because we decided to stay overnight in a town we thought was nearby (it totally was a 2 hour drive away... but worth it), we got to see sunset at Maderas Beach. Crazy beautiful. 
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