Wow! Yesterday was the longest day ever. We left our house at 5am for a 7am flight. We did spend a few hours in the Dallas airport, grabbed some food, and Liza worked on some homework. That is one huge airport. We then took another plane to Belize City. Upon landing, we saw a great deal of lush green swampy land, mostly open and barren. The few wooden shacks are up on stilts. There were so many friendly natives smiling, ready to help as we climbed down the stairs of the plane. Of course my favorite was the small Raggae band sitting in the middle of the luggage rack with their tip bucket. Liza was wide eyed and smiling, never having been south of Florida.
Then we proceeded to go through customs and find our seven huge duffels, all there safely! I hadn't made plans yet to get over to the island where we are staying, Ambergris Caye, and I knew all boats and flights stop around 5:30. A very nice man in the airport rushed us to Tropic Air, asked for my credit card and told me that was our route. It all happened so fast. Before I knew it, Liza and I were in this little 10 seater plane, and she was up the cockpit with the pilot. I quickly thought of Maclean and Cha Cha and said a quick prayer! :) Actually, it was amazing and only lasted 15 minutes. The deep blue ocean, hundreds of little cayes and the endless reef off in the distance were just some of the gorgeous sights.
The town of San Pedro is bustling with people on bikes, carts, stray dogs, many stands selling food and handmade jewelry items. Anyone and everyone will talk to you, bless you, and ask you if you want to buy something. It is definitely a poor area, and the people seem so nice.
We met up with Ali, and our new friend, Justin, for a quick dinner. Justin had travelled all day as well, so he too was foggy like I felt. We wandered around and stopped at a little place where Justin could get the lobster burritos he had heard about. Liza tried her first papoussa, and I had a yummy shrink kabab.
We are staying in a little place called the Conch Shell Inn. It is a little motel right on the water. It is a little small and rustic,no AC, a corner room next two two bars and a side street that had activity most of the night. Eventually we both put headphones on and dozed from complete exhaustion.
My goal today is to make progress on this lousy cold I brought with me. I will post some pictures later.
Miss everyone!
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