Caye Caulker Beach Day

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Today was our last day on Caye Caulker and I was excited to do nothing again. We had talked about some snorkeling, but everything that we found, was just way too expensive.

I started the morning out by gathering my dirty laundry. Niki and I headed up the road to a cheap laundromat where we could throw our clothes in the washer for like three bucks a person. While we waited for them to cycle, we headed to the bank to exchange our Belizian money for American. We had taken out a ton because we thought that we were going to dive and didn't want to be stuck with that much money. From there we headed back to Gloria's smoothie place for our like forth fruit smoothie on Caye Caulker. By the time we got back to the laundry place, our load was done and ready for hanging.

We returned to Marin's (the name of our guest house) and strung our laundry on the many clotheslines. From there, we joined Lee and Georgia who where hanging out on the little patio porch using the wifi. We hung out there for a little while to avoid the high noon sun and just play on our electronics. I was able to Skype a few people, check my email, and work more on my blog which was still averaging about a week between posts and reality.

We headed to the beach and hung out there until sunset. The crowd at the beach grew as the orange ball in the sky drifted further and further toward the horizon. We snapped pics with our new Australian friends who, at this point now, felt like parents away from home. I admired how much we had gotten to know each other over the past six or seven days. I was sad to be leaving them in the morning.

After sunset, we made the fifteen minute walk back to the other side of the island where we were staying and now, like the locals, I didn't where shoes anywhere we went. The warm and sand covered brick streets felt awesome under my feet as I walked my sun kissed body back for dinner.

After showers and iPod karaoke, we headed back to the same little diner for our meal. While waiting for our food, Georgia pulled out her deck of cards and I went out on a limb and asked them if they knew how to play euchre, knowing it was a shot in the dark. To my surprise though, all three of their faces lit up with excitement and said, "YES!" I was really surprised because even just traveling in our own country, there are so many people who don't know how to play, but to see people all the way from Australia who knew and loved this game was awesome!

I explained that our family loves euchre and how my parents play in euchre leagues with their friends and they laughed nodding their heads, explaining that they were the same way! I had been with Lee and Paul for a week now and knew, hands down, that they would get along with Niki and I's parents so well.

Paul sat out of our first game, while us four girls dealt out the cards for a quick game. We did discover a few differences between their way and ours, but worked them out and really enjoyed the game. Food was great, Georgia and I lost in Euchre and our night was coming to an end.

Back at the guest house, I got to Skype a few more people while they played Euchre and then we headed back to our cabin to pack. Like gypsies, we packed up our small amount of things and prepared for another departure the next morning. Leaving nothing but our books unpacked, we laid down to read our books until we fell asleep. Just like my dad falling asleep five minutes into a movie, I didn't get very far into my book before passing out. Throughout this trip, Niki had told me how she envied my ability to just instantly sleep when my head hits the pillow. All I was doing was just showing off my awesome ability, because I knew the alarm would annoy the crap out of me come morning.