“Last night I dreamt of San Pedro…” -Madonna

On Thursday, we left San Ignacio and headed towards Ambergris Caye/San Pedro.  It took a 2-hour drive to Belize City and then another hour and a half on the water taxi.  We arrived at the water taxi a little early for our 1:30 ride so we briefly wandered Belize City to find that it was too hot, too dirty, and too sketchy.  So, we opted to go back to the terminal to wait in the air-conditioned waiting room.  It was there that we met a couple (Angie and Van) also from SF.  They were on their honeymoon and also heading to San Pedro.  I guess we started talking when Angie noticed that Jes was wearing his zipcar shirt and was curious to know if we were from the Bay Area too.  Yeah, I’m sure the Timbuktu bag AND the zipcar shirt was a dead giveaway.

Once we arrived in San Pedro, we grabbed lunch and beer with our new found friends and then shared a cab to our respective accommodations.  After settling in and having dinner, we met up with them for drinks.  Since we all weren’t using cell phones, had no in-room phones, and we didn’t have a front desk person after 6pm, I had to resort to leaving messages with people.  With the help of our bartender, security guard, another bartender, and some luck, we managed to find each other and enjoyed an evening of ceviche and beer.  How in the world did I survive without a cell phone back in the day?!

That same afternoon, as I was exploring the grounds, we found some boys on the dock with a baby nurse shark wriggling around.  I guess they just caught it and weren’t quite sure what to do with it.  They were so proud that they caught it but scared that it was going to bite them.  The skinny one without the shirt was brave enough to pick it up by its tail and another one had a puny knife that didn’t look like it even cut cheese.  After all that hoopla, they ended up throwing it back into the water.