Monday in Belize

Since it gets dark (and I mean DARK.  No light pollution on a deserted island!), we decided that sleeping in wasn’t really an option.  So we are going to bed “earlyish” and waking up “early”.  Today we rolled out of bed at 8;30 and immediately grabbed a kayak and headed for the ocean.  Neither of us has ever kayaked before, but it didn’t take too long to figure it out.  It was really fun, and hopefully helped balance out the 4 pina coladas and 2 ice creams cones we ate today!  

After we kayaked, Todd kicked my trash at a game of horseshoes.  So after that, I needed to do something I was better at than Todd. 

SHOPPING!

We hopped on the ferry and headed to San Pedro for a local lunch and gift shopping.  

(The shore of San Pedro.  The only city on the island we were on.)

We found a fun restaurant right next to the water.  We saw several HUGE stingrays swim by, and we even got to feed some tarpons. And thus began our pina colada binge!

This is a video of me attempting to feed the tarpon fish.  I was excited until I saw their huge mouth with pointy teeth...

 San Pedro itself isn’t too impressive.  It is small and poor.  There are only 3 streets.  I literally saw advertisements for businesses, and for the address it would say middle street!  Most people ride bikes or drive golf carts.  And pedestrians definitely do NOT have the right of way!  We found some great gifts for the kids, and thoroughly enjoyed eating coconut ice cream to cool down.

 (Hmmm... is that coconut ice cream or a pina colada?)

 Belizean beaches weren't as nice as we had expected.  They are small, and because the water is clear, tons of plants grow along the ocean floor.  That also means they wash ashore in huge piles of dead plant.  We hardly spent any time just hanging out on the beach.  But we spent hours in the warm ocean water!

I snapped a picture of this boat because it is named "Gi Gi", which is what our children and our nieces call their great grandma.  Coincidentally, grandma Gigi passed away the following morning (more on that in a different post though).

Did I mention that Belize is really hot and humid?  We have been sweating our faces off!