First I have to say that we are getting plenty of exercise on this trip and have easily cut our food consumption in half. We walk everywhere and its a sauna so I think it counts double! I know Dr Anne, my Chiropractor/Health Consultant/friend would be proud!
We woke up fairly early, probably about 7:30. We are going out on a snorkeling trip at 10:30am so first we had breakfast at Glenda's. I assume they open at 8am, they opened at 7am so by the time we get there she was out of her 'famous' Cinnamon rolls. She doesn't have fruit on her menu and the thought of eating eggs in this heat is not appealing to me (plus we are going out on a boat and I've been known to suffer from sea sickness), so I just order orange juice. Linc orders eggs, ham, beans and a biscuit -- PIG. I end up eating the biscuit with homemade jam which is awesome. The juice tastes "funny", Linc tastes it and tells me its I think it tastes funny because its actually FRESHLY SQUEEZED from oranges...like the real thing baby! Its not real cold but its really fresh...squeezed moments ago!
We are going to Shark/Ray Alley and two other 'dives'. Its a small boat and the other guests are a group of young Israeli kids you just finished their tour in the
Army. Five girls and one boy. They are very nice. Mario is the Dive leader and Juan is his helper. Mario is a very funny man who has been on CC for 25 years. Between dives they serve us fresh fruit (watermelon and later pineapple which they cut on board) and later we get special punch (rum). We only motor about 10 minutes off the coast of CC to the Belize Barrier reef to Shark/Ray Alley. They are EVERYWHERE! The water is very shallow so I sit on the edge of the boat waiting for the area to be clear so I can slide off the side of the boat and not step on any rays or sharks when my feet hit the bottom (yuck!). The first time I go in, I didn't wear my water socks so I'm afraid to touch the ground. Its sandy with sea grass...but mainly there are rays EVERYWHERE.
NOTE: Our plan is to buy a program at some point that we can use to edit our videos, I'm sure you are wishing we had already done that, or you will be wishing so by the end of this trip. Unfortunately you are gonna have to deal with me wondering if the video is working or with extra time on the end of videos...sorry!
As you see from the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63nyUTBd6oo, Lincoln hands me the camera. Its an awesome video! I can't tell if he's handed it to me with the video going or if I'm supposed to take pictures, its hard to see the screen. I assume the video is on. Unfortunately there is a point where he comes up to me from my blind side and scares the living sh*t out of me! I mean REALLY???????? You do not TOUCH me when there are sharks and rays swimming around my feet. I FREAKED OUT! Fortunately the things I said did not end up being recorded. Those of you that know me...can fill in the blanks! I could not get out of the water fast enough. I panicked. Silly I know, but that's what happened. I hyperventilated, the whole nine yards. Juan tried to get me in the boat and couldn't. After a few moments, I was able to calm myself enough to get out on my own. Once back in the boat, I started to calm my breathing. One of the Israeli gals also freaked herself out and came out and joined me. I could then concentrate on calming HER down. Eventually we both calmed down enough and we both went BACK in the water.
Lincoln later told me how proud he was of me. First for getting in the water in the first place with the sharks & rays and then even more for getting in the second time. That was nice. He didn't scare me on purpose, he wanted the camera and thought I knew he was next to me.
Oh...we saw a BARRACUDA (he's in the video above)! Scary looking fish. He was pretty big too! Even freaked out Lincoln who doesn't get phased very easily. While the Nurse Sharks and Rays are docile, the Barracuda is not. We saw him at the first location and then again at the third location. All locations were fairly close to each other so it made sense that we kept seeing him. I of course start to wonder if he's stalking me and wants a chunk of my lily white flesh!
The next two places were fun as well, coral reefs to explore, hundreds of different fish to see and Lincoln saw a bunch of huge Lobsters in the rocks. We even saw a lost Ray. We were always in sight of CC.
We got back to the room about 2pm. The A/C still hasn't been fixed. The repairman should be on the Water Taxi from Belize City that arrives at 4pm. We take ice cold (the only smart kind) showers to get the salt water off us and cool off.
We are hungry and thirsty so we decided to try a restaurant, Tropical Paradise, around the corner & through the graveyard, that's having a Happy Hour (all day really) special of a bucket of 6 beers (9.6oz each) for BZE$20 (USD$10) with Chips & Salsa included. We order that and the girl gets all embarrassed and giggly when we tell her the bucket is just for Lincoln and I want the Banana Colada special 2 for BZE$10. We ordered dinner and hung out for awhile hoping that by the time we got back to our room it would be a cold room.
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My Love & Me
At about 5pm a storm came in and it started to pour and get really windy. We thought it might just pass through but it looked like it was going to stay. We have paid for a trip to the Blue Hole tomorrow. Fortunately we have plenty of time and if we don't go tomorrow there will be other trips we can go on. The rain comes and goes but the storm is sitting over us. The good news is that it does cool things off a bit.
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When we headed back to the room we found that our room was still a "hot room". Doris set us up in room #2 on the first floor while the repairman worked on the A/C unit for our room. Within a short time our room was cold and we were happy campers.
We only ate twice today (I really only ate once). But neither of us are hungry. Its going to be an early morning, we have to be at the pier by 5:45am to go to the Blue Hole so our plan is to go to sleep early but of course its almost 11 before we finally get there.
I'm so far behind in this blog that I spend time typing it instead! Adding pictures seems to take even longer than typing it. Gotta please the fans - LOL!
I'm thrilled so many people, friends and people I don't know, from all over the world are reading my blog! Thank you!!!
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