Again, an abbreviated post. We're headed out to Caye Caulker in less than an hour but we wanted to get yesterday's activities written down.
We woke up in the Belize Zoo Lodge to furious bird chirping. There is so much nature here it's ridiculous. Everything is green, brown and moving. We had another great breakfast, but no donuts. We may have mentioned this earlier, but the Lodge serves wonderful little donuts for lunch and dinner, but not breakfast. Eggs, ham, thick flour tortillas, and Marie Sharp's hot sauce, which seems to have replaced Melinda's as the hot sauce of choice all over the country.
Then we hit the road for Altun Ha, one of the ancient Mayan ruins in Belize. On the way, we saw something so amazing that we had to turn around to take a closer look. Behold, the Belize Prison and Gift Shop. The guard wasn't amused by these photos for some reason, and there was much strife between Bobby and Audrey regarding whether they should have beeen taken or not. The important thing is, we got out alive and unemprisoned by driving away quickly.
Above: Here it is!!!
We drove on the semi-paved Old Northern Highway for about thirty minutes. Basically a really long rural driveway. We were briefly stuck behind a road crew of five or six old guys who were shoveling steaming tar into some of the holes on the road, creating bumps in the road, probably on the assumption that if you have enough bumps, they even out the remaining holes.
- Reached Altun Ha; lots of memories came back; clean restrooms
- Self-guided tour of the site; climbed up everything, took photos from every angle, photo uploads pending
- Arrived in Belize City; visited old house, now painted bright green with bright blue roof; Bobby had a crazy dream about it last night; confirmed that Big Ugly Warehouse is still obscuring view between old house and Caribbean Sea
- Threw caution to the wind, drove downtown across Swing Bridge (now seldom seen swinging), ate curry chicken and fried chicken at Macy's cafe during local blackout; saw photo of Harrison Ford eating at Macy's during filming of Mosquito Coast
- Drove through worst parts of Belize City as sun was setting; white knuckles and prayer
- Reached Red Hut Inn in a nice neighborhood on the outskirts of town at twilight; much rejoicing; kicked selves for not renting car from Red Hut at inexpensive rate
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