Pretirement

holy crap we did so much diving! i found out that yellowfins are really beautiful, curious, brave, and confident fish. too bad for them they taste amazing. i saw a ray, a lobster, lots of pretty stuff, some dolphins, and SHARKS. they were nurse sharks. they were as big as me. they swam up to check us out but they didn’t want to be petted so i didn’t press the issue.

now i’m open water certified and i have a tshirt to prove it. belize is super expensive and has only american products. they don’t really sell produce. even fish was expensive on the island. how is fish expensive on a reef island. there’s a lot about belize that doesn’t make sense. but the beaches are out of this world beautiful and stewed chicken beans and rice is four bucks so there’s good and bad.

after my first shark decided not to eat me, i bought a necklace made of shark bones. that’s tempting fate a little bit, i know.

i went to a barber for the first time in like four years. getting your hair cut kicks ass. he gave me a great fade and edged my whole head with a razor blade.

conni and i left yesterday for guatemala. we’re in flores, a city on an island in the middle of a huge lake. it’s an hour from tikal, one of the big three mayan sites. the cool thing to do there is go with a tour service at 3:30am. they pick you up in a van, drive you to your site and take you up to sit on some pyramid’s steps to watch the sunrise. we have a ton of spooky pictures of old temples rising up out of jungle and mist. show ya later.

tired now. conni isn’t. that’s annoying. we got here at 10:30 last night, and the most helpful taxi driver ever took us to the only working ATM in the city, woke up a travel agent so we could book our morning trip to tikal, and found us what must be the best $6 hotel on the planet. today the hotel clerk, who moonlights as a travel agent, sold us our tickets to palenque. there are more ruins there and it’s supposed to be a great place to stay. so we’ll stay there a few days, then back to cancun for Spring Break Round Two! yeah! bye!