There is only one reason to ignore your weather app. on your phone and it is: that if the app. says it shouldn't rain so you leave your jacket at home, it absolutely WILL rain, you'll look like a rat and all of the natives will laugh at you. I write from first-hand experience because that is what happened to me today, when even though my phone AND Whitney's phone predicted clear skies, I still wanted to carry my rain jacket with me until Whitney told me to just ; it. So I left it and you can guess what happened. (And if you can't guess, I'm going to elaborate).
Rewind to when I wasn't dripping on someone's floor to the start of the day. Whitney and I wanted to try a bakery that we'd read about online called SugarFix. It was a bit out of the way (expected 30-40 minute walk) so we saved it for a day where we didn't have any real time constraints. The cool thing about walking in Belize City is that they don't have any street signs because who needs to know where they're going anyways?! Just kidding, we needed to know where we were going because we had no clue. We didn't get lost but we did ask every other person we passed to confirm that we were headed in the correct direction. Whitney DID point out that if we did get lost, it would be ok because 50 guys would have already asked us if we needed a taxi before we knew it ourselves!! Seriously, we can't walk a block without someone asking us if we need a ride, or when we tell them we don't, they ask if we're sure. We get it! We don't look like we're from here but we're 100% positive that we aren't going to the water taxi and you aren't going to change our minds when we're walking in the opposite direction...
Mini feminist rant over and back to breakfast. Whitney and I decided that we would split a cinnamon twist, a croissant and something else that just looked cool! That way, we'd get to try a bit of everything! The something that looked cool ended up being what might essentially be described as a hot pocket as it was a pocket and it had meat inside. The cinnamon twist was delicious but the best part was the croissant! It was the best croissant I'd had since Paris; they were polar opposites in the most basic way because this croissant wasn't the flaky, melt-away pastry that I had at the top of the Eiffel Tower but it was amazing. It was also filled with ham and cheese so that was an extra special surprise!
After that, we went to the Museum of Belize, which was a neat place. The museum was actually in the old prison building so that was another interesting layer on top. Next, we decided to we would take another bus ride to Old Belize, which is a few miles outside of regular Belize. It's kind of tourist place, I guess. There is a restaurant, small museum and water park. Now, in the States, when you miss your bus, you silently wait for the next one but today we learned that this is not how to do it in Belize: if you arrive at the station as the bus is pulling out, you simply follow the other half dozen people like you out of the station and make your own station two blocks away, so that's how we got on the bus.
And that's when the rain started. Just pouring straight down onto the bus we were on... And were about to get off. Yeah, you know what happens next.
We got dropped off at Old Belize and by the time we'd crossed the road to get inside the gate, we were soaked through. Luckily for us, the museum was another quarter mile past there! I actually looked like I'd fallen in the ocean... And of course, once we were inside, the rain stopped. Cool. We didn't go to the water park because we didn't have swimsuits with us but we were essentially dressed for it at that point. The highlight of all of this insanity was when we went to the bathroom to *attempt* to dry off and Whitney proudly quipped "Hey, my pits are dry." Yes, everyone can take a deep breath because Whitney's armpits made it through the storm unscathed. The museum here took visitors through the history of the area but the coolest part was the history including a special store owner. His last name was Biddle! Which is our mom's last name. He definitely wasn't related to us because he changed his name to Biddle when people couldn't pronounce his actual name but still cool.
We were planning in taking the bus back into Belize City but as we were walking back to the bus stop, the rain started again. We'd learned from our mistake and promptly had them call us a cab.
Back at our hostel, we were able to do our laundry and we also walked to the grocery store to get snacks for our bus ride to Guatemala tomorrow. Since everything seems to close super early here, we decide we'd also get ourselves some dinner here. We ordered subs and went with 12 inches since we knew it would be all we had for the night but these subs are more like 24 inches. They're gigantic.
We also went back to Moho Chocolate. This time we decided to split a large chocolate cheesecake shake. It wasn't as good as the shakes we got yesterday because they were a little heavy handed with the graham cracker pieces but still chocolate. We also got two chocolate bars for the road but I doubt they'll make it very far!!
We're spending the rest of the evening repacking our lives and getting ready for country #2 tomorrow!! It's been amazing Belize, but I'm excited to see what Guatemala has to offer! This trip is going to fly by!!!
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