You better Belize it.

Three hours later, we arrived in Belize City! The guidebook boasted of a quaint Carribean town, where you can walk nowhere without being serenaded by Reggae Beats and friendly faces. I have come to the conclusion that the author must have been on some heavy drugs. I have never been in such a shit-scary place in my life. Talk about trench town!!! We walked by the crumbling buildings and were followed by many drunk homeless men, asking us if we needed directions to the ATM. Yea, that sounded like a good idea. After a bit of bickering in the streets, we hopped in the water taxi to go over to Caye Caulker. We didn´t want to spend one more minute in that scary town. Caye Caulker was nice, but as it was still raining, there was little to do other than eat and drink, which we did. Can you believe we had to pay $39 Belizian, which is $20 american dollars, for a 6 pack of Red Stripe!?? At this point we knew we needed to leave Belize, STAT. Had a nice evening of cards in our room, listening to the rain pour down.

The next day, we grabbed a water taxi back to Belize City, then a Chicken Bus to San Ignacio. And a chicken bus it was! 2 live chickens were in the back seat, sitting in plastic bags, clucking away. Wow. Arrived in San Ignacio, where we were met by a very nice american man who gave us all the informaiton in the world that we could need for the town, and let us know that the Guatemalan border was closed because the bridge was under water!! Terrible flooding everywhere. Crazy. We went to the shop, bought a bottle of rum, some bread and fillings, and went back to the hotel. Nice evening of kings in the corner and cocktails!

Woke up today, went across the road to get an update on the border. It had opened! Hopped in a chicken bus, and away we went!! The border crossing was no big deal,and thankfully the water had receeded just enough to allow traffic through. You could see the standing water in all the fields, this flooding will be devestating for many people. After attiving in our third country, at the end of our third week, we were relieved to be back on comfortable ground! Grabbed a collectivo to Flores, got a room at Los Amigos (nice private room, with actual art on the walls, in the best place in town... $11!!!) Had a huge pizza lunch down the street overlooking the lake, and are feeling great. Its nice to finally catch you guys up on the blog! Miss everyone, we are enjoying your comments. Love you all!! :)