Belize-July 22nd

This morning we woke up early yet again, and this time went to breakfast a little earlier. The night before, I had done my research on Trip Advisor for good breakfast places, and I found a highly rated place called Amor y Café. We walked there, and realized it was farther than most of the other restaurants. We sat down at a table on the patio with a nice view. It was extremely hot, so the waiters brought out fans, which my mom was very grateful for. We both ordered scrambled eggs and toast, and it tasted delicious. 

Happily full, we walked to the hand-painted t-shirt shop to pick up my shirt. On our way back to our hotel, we passed a vender with very nice jewelry, and bought a necklace for my friend back home. 

Satisfied with our purchase, we walked back to the hotel to enjoy our last bit of air conditioning, then checked out. We walked to a coffee shop called Ice and Beans across the street, which was definitely my favorite shop/restaurant in Caye Caulker because the owner is so nice. We went inside and my mom got an iced coffee and I got an extra sweet vanilla mocha. We took our drinks outside and sat at a picnic table on the beach. 

We enjoyed our drinks, then walked to the water taxi dock. It began to rain very heavily, henceforth everyone because moving towards the center of the covered area and my mom went under the roof of a candy shop to talk to the owner.  A man probably in his late 20s approached me and began telling me about all his travels. He was from northern Canada and had been traveling for a month in Central America, and had so far travelled to Guatemala, Belize, and was headed for Honduras. It was quite an interesting conversation because he told me all his macho stories of getting in fights, etc. A water taxi worker interrupted our conversation to tag my bags, and I was grateful. Unfortunately, after my bags were tagged, the guy moved to my other side and introduced himself and kept talking. 

Soon the boat arrived and I returned to my mothers side. We got in line to board, and my mom noticed a mother and two daughters who just walked up to the front of the line. My mom reminded the lady that there was a line, and the lady seriously said, "I know. I own this boat." My mom and I had to suppress our laughter at the mothers response and got onto the boat. 

On the boat my mom and I met a family of four who were on a cruise in Belize and had just snorkeled that day with a different snorkeling company. They showed us all their pictures of snorkeling, and we told them about our trip in Cancun, and I showed them pictures. We talked to them for the majority of the ride, which definitely helped to pass the time. 

We arrived in Belize city at 12:15 and got a taxi that offered to take us to lunch prior to the airport. We are at a restaurant called Nerie's and we both got curry chicken. It was very delicious, but we had lots of leftovers. Back in the taxi, we talked to our driver, Armando Medina for a long while in Spanish. I hadn't used my Spanish in a while, so it wasn't perfect, but I communicated well. 

At the airport we walked around only for a while then we were off to San Salvador. When we arrived, we walked to a candy and snack shop called Diana's which is a very traditional food brand in San Salvador. We bought some snacks traditional to San Salvador and saved them for later. We walked to a restaurant called "Delight;" it reminded us of "Enjoy." We both got pupusas and a cabbage salad, which was pretty okay. For dessert, we split an apple, and soon everyone else was too. It was very cool as well, because during dinner, there was a huge window in front of us, and a big lighting storm was occurring, which we had the chance to watch from inside. 

We boarded our plane to Honduras and arrived at 9pm. When we arrived, we were absolutely exhausted from such a long day, and to top it off, we had to wait in the line at customs for an hour. Once through customs we took a taxi to our hotel.