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Day 5 – Food!

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I forgot to photograph breakfast until it was much to late, so you have several photos of empty plates here :P. Sausages, a communal bowl of scrambled eggs, a bowl of refried beans, a basket of fried jacks and a bottle of Marie Sharpes. Breakfast!

I did not find these fried jacks as pleasing as the ones at 5 Sisters. I began to worry if I had tasted extraordinary fried jacks, and that no other preparation would leave me satisfied. (They were still pastries drizzled in honey…I had 4 :P)

Lunch was at that creepy place with the old people. They had some decent lime juice (she had frozen pucks of juice…add sugar and water and stir for a while). I think this is a breaded chicken burger and fries. Every mouthful I thought I was going to start choking on the poison she had put in there, or pass out and wake up tied to a bed. But the food was tasty and I walked out, so I guess I don’t have to much to complain about :P.

The eldery gentleman spent a significant amount of time talking about his cashew pie, so when the question of dessert arose, we had no choice but to sample it. It tasted like a mincemeat tart, but with cashews in it. I like mincemeat, and I love cashews, and this was a good pie.

Dinner was prepared on the side of a road BBQ in San Pedra. Pupusas! They hand-make the dough and then they have bits of meat, beans or cheese inside them. Dip them in the “tomato soup” in the middle of the table, or just go straight for the Marie Sharpes. A good meal!

We’re getting into “diving territory” from here, and I haven’t yet taken the time to go through my diving videos to make a summary video. Perhaps now that I’ve thought about it, I’ll see if I can’t start that process tomorrow…I have about 7 hours of video and a lot of it will be crap >.>

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Day 5 – Zoo!

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We woke up at ridiculous o’clock for sunrise yoga. It was pretty good, but in the end we did much better yoga later on in the trip. Still, this was enjoyable. A good way to start the day.

Sean decided that sunrise yoga was not for him.

This is an ant trail. Walked by so many ants that it’s a little path through the grass. These were all over the lawn.

One last shot of the Belize Jungle Dome (at Banana Bank). We tried to go into that dome, but apparently the stairs are broken and not safe so we decided to do something else instead.

The zoo! I was a little worried about the zoo…I’ve been to a few, and I just don’t find animals all that exciting. This place was pretty hilarious though. They have funny rhyming signs all over the place. Apparently it was started in the 80s after a documentary crew had a bunch of animals left over and no where to put them. Presto, instant zoo. Since then they’ve taken in entirely rescue animals.

Monkey! This was the first time I missed my old camera. I would’ve been able to get that monkey in the frame…

Tapir!

Ocelot! Such a beautiful cat.

Wild boar!

More kitties!

Sean, the bird whisperer.

This jaguar is apparently famous. He is a “problem jaguar”, as they made sure everyone knew. But he’ll give you a high-five and apparently he’s used for jaguar education…as in…educating people.

Ok, so I desperately wish that I had the guts to take a photo of the proprietors of this place. We were driving back to the airport to drop off the ladies and needed some food, so we stopped at some random place.

Old man, old lady and they gave us the no-feeling. Sean thought they were just old. Kerry and I were amazed that we left with all of our skin. ie, it wasn’t being used as bed sheets.

Aside from the general aura of old-person-creep about them, they also had this really odd habit. They would stand over us while we were eating and have a conversation. But each of them was having a different conversation, regardless of whether anyone was actually listening or not. At one point I watched while everyone turned to the lady and the man just kept talking away. So…weird.

We left Dayl, Diane and Sandra at the airport and wished them a happy flight. Sad to see them go – they were great to hang out with – but happy to get to the island and go diving!

The boat to San Pedro. It left from Belize City and took about 2 hours. (I think, maybe 1.5).

There is more from Day 5, but I wanted to split it up. Later!

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Day 4 – Food!

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Day 4 started in Flores, Guatemala. We stopped at a farmers market just outside of the island. Lots of food to look at!

This was a local cornbread cooked on a BBQ-thing on the side of the road. Delicious!

Kerry and Dayl and I bought an avocado. I stopped to look at something. I walk around the corner and the two of them are ripping into it as though it was the last avocado on earth. I had some. It was pretty amazing :).

We bought some local fruits. I bought tomatoes.

This was the second most disappointing meal on the trip. We went to a Chinese place in Belmopan…think it was called Golden Trunk or Golden Sea. We’d arrived early at the Jungle Dome, and they only stock food for when you say you’re coming, so we had to drive back out to town to find food. Nothing looked good, and we ended up stopping here. They had some really tasty pastries though, and we bought donuts and donut holes for later.

This is the remains of some rice and a breaded chicken and some salad. This is about when I started forgetting to photograph my food and ended up with remains :P. You have been warned…

This meal was excellent! Dinner at the Jungle Dome – two massive pieces of chicken, bean soaked rice, a salad.

Oh, a story I forgot to tell about getting to the Jungle Dome. So all we have on how to get there is a tour book that is giving directions. But as we’re driving, the directions start getting vague…as though they could really mean “this left, or that left?” There are signs to a place called Banana Bank, but no Jungle Dome. Some panicked minutes later we find a tiny little Jungle Dome sign, right next to a giant Banana Bank sign. Someone had neglected to mention that the Jungle Dome is in an area called “Banana Bank” 🙂

Day 5 is our trip to the zoo! Later!

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Day 4 – Horses and Jungle Dome

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We woke up the next morning, packed our stuff up and drove across the bridge into Santa Elena (the Guatemalan one). Kerry had a plan of hitting up a little (large!) farmers market about 5 minutes drive from Flores. We wandered around it for about 20-30 minutes and left with several bags of delicious fruits, vegetables and bread products.

There’s a kid and his bicycle sitting on the back of this truck. About 20 minutes later, there was another kid and another bicycle.

The Jungle Dome!

I pet the dog, named Dinero, once. I regretted it. He was adorable, but he needed a bath something fierce.

We had showed up early, so the lady at the Dome arranged for us to go horse riding for the afternoon!

There was a giant hurricane in October, so there was decaying plant matter everywhere.

Soy bean fields as far as the eye can see.

This was one of the best parts of my trip. Usually when you go to a tourist horse riding tour they put you on these lame horses that haven’t seen solid food in years and can barely hold you up. You get a tame little ride through some little area and then you head back.

These guys let me go FAST. Like REALLY REALLY FAST. My horse, Saucy, ran half the length of the soy bean fields and then back again. Good horse, good run, so much fun!

I think this kids name was Eric. He was riding backwards, and I told him “I’m taking a picture of you, showoff.” He replied that he wasn’t showing off…

NOW he’s showing off 😛

Saucy. She worked hard for me and we had cuddles after. Sherman (the guide guy) said I could take her with me if I could fit her in my suitcase. I tried, but it didn’t work out.

A photo of Sean and Kerry being cute. And Dayl reading in the background.

The room I slept in.

A rad frog Sean spotted by the pool. Looks surprisingly like a frog that Jake took a photo of in Fiji…

Agricola! This was one of two times I beat Sean. He was sick this night. 🙂

I’ve been pretty busy, but I’m trying to keep these updates coming. Lots more days of fun to show off! Food for Day 4 is next!