DAY TWO: took a boat to ambergris caye early in the morning. found another cheap hotel room for $20 (even better!). hung out and explored the island. this island was so cool. i loved it. everyone used golf carts to drive around. we also went to the most amazing restaurant ever: red mangos. so delicious and nutritious.
DAY THREE: woke up. found the least expensive snorkeling trip available and went on a snorkeling trip to "shark ray alley". coolest snorkeling of my life. there were nurse sharks and sting rays EVERYWHERE. i mean everywhere. i was on rich's back most of the time because it freaked my out when the sharks and rays brushed up on me. we also saw eels, a barracuda and a bazillion other amazing fish. again, that was the best snorkeling ever. belize has an awesome barrier reef. definitely want to go back again super bad.
DAY FOUR: woke up early. packed and took a boat back to belize city. then we went to their bus station and paid like $4 for a bus ticket to go to placencia. placencia is pretty much all the way across belize, so this was an amazing deal. however, we had no clue why it was cheap. after the bus ride, i now know why. it was an old school bus (from pleasant grove, ut! funny!), and in these school buses they pack like 3 people per seat, and then people stand in the rows for hours, so it sucks if you don't get a seat. luckily, thanks to rich's fast moves, we got a seat. the other reason why this bus is so cheap is because they pretty much almost kill you. we now call the bus ride to placencia the jungle coaster because it was like a roller coaster--but scarier! imagine this: you are in the middle of the jungle in a bus driving on a single one lane old road with pot holes, and are going up and down hills, passing cars/trucks/semis/other school buses while going up hills, going over broken bridges, and then imagine that this bus is going about 80 mph. i seriously thought we were going to die for the first hour. i just hid my head under the window because i could not watch. i remember reading that the biggest cause of death in belize is traffic accidents, and i now know why. this was a jungle coaster going out of control. after the first hour of the hell ride, i decided that if i was going to die, i wanted to at least have fun, so i finally stopped hiding and just enjoyed the ride with rich. when we go to placencia, we got a hotel room for $15. the prices were seriously amazing.
DAY FIVE: we wanted to go explore the jungle, so we did! it was such a cool trip. we went with this local guy who did tours. i'm glad we went with him because he had a machete. we saw howler monkeys (scariest noise to hear in the jungle), manatees, crocodiles, other monkeys, tons of cool birds and jaguar tracks!
DAY SIX: took a bus to gautemala. the border crossing was super shady, but we eventually got over the border. we then took a bus to this little island called flores and got a hotel for $20. we explored the little island and had lunch, and then went swimming.
DAY SEVEN: we went to tikal. tikal was amazing. it is like the largest mayan archeological site, and the place was amazing. we climbed up so many temples and there were monkeys everywhere too! loved it. got a hotel room for $12. again, the prices were amazingly inexpensive.
DAY EIGHT: took a bus back to belize city and flew home. got home around midnight.
DAY NINE: woke up early, finished packing up our apartment and then drove to omaha, NE. we got into omaha at like 2am.
DAY TEN: woke up at 6am and went to my orientation. rich dropped me off, then drove to hastings to look for an apartment. (we hadn't gotten one yet). he hadn't found one yet, so we got a hotel room. unfortunately, the prices were not as inexpensive as they were in gautemala.
DAY ELEVEN: i went to school and rich found an apartment. i love our apartment. then we moved in! home sweet home! ...we are a little crazy...
let the journey begin!
they have these little water hut things everywhere. so cool!
hey hottie ;)
rich found a coconut, so he made coconut juice. it was tasty!
coconut!
a whole lobster for $6? yes please.
the belize city bus station
placencia
this is the daughter of the guy who took us on the jungle tour. she was so cute too.
one of our sweet hotel rooms and rich's sweet muscles.
i would never want to be alone in the jungle at night.
the jungle boat. there were crocs everywhere!
GO JAZZ! ahah!
the beginning of the jungle coaster (this is before it started getting crazy).
gautemala is sooo pretty!
JUNGLE COASTER!!! (seriously, i got the roller coaster butterfly feeling everytime we went down a hill because the driver was on roids).
cutest little girl ever. she was my jungle coaster buddy.
so happy to find this atm..we never carried too much cash, but one time we cut it a little too close, and they don't take visa...
tikal!
pink shirt!
us being so happy. it was really cool because at the top of the temple, you could see tons of other temples. the pics don't really show it that well, but trust me.
i love jungles!
this monkey was pretty much begging to be held
my warrior man
princess janelle ;)
mayan temple
i'm not scared of heights, but those steps were intense! they were also probably not in the best condition of their life.
us in flores. coolest little island ever! it felt like we were in italy.
us packed in a minivan with 36 people. yup. 36 people. we counted. we know. ahah! wow. good times. just so my mother knows, when we got in the minivan...there were only four of us.
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