happy centennial !!!!!!

i would like to say that this is...

yayyy!!!!!

ok back to the trip...

well i haven't really written anything recently because last weekend i was in southern belize being adventurized...
ohmygoodness that was interesting. so i've written summary of the event up to this point....
(gary is from school... he's tagging along.)

the wheels on the bus go round and roundandroundandroud

by Julianne Smoak on Monday, 23 May 2011 at 19:48

and round and round and up and down and up and down...

soooo it's been a very interesting weekend... saturday Aimee (one of the girls from the hostel) and i went to belize city to meet up with victoria and catch the bus to Punta Gorda. longer story made short... vicitoria caight the bus bus they didn't and so we were riding long and had some very interesting riding companions... i drew pictures of our adventures so i'll post those soon :) we didn't get there till it was like wayy dark and we were almost the last ones off the bus and we had to walk down the street to the place.. ooo creepy anyway the matres was comfortable and, thankfully, that's all that mattered. in the morning we went down to Grace's for breakfast and internet and wound up missing the first bus t the festival... (they moved it the ruins so it wasn't in town) so we dicided to hang out and catch the next bus... while we were waiting we met these two little local girls, they were so cute :) so we waited and waited and waited and the 11:00 bus came around 12:30 and once we got on we realize that the trip there, was one way was going to be one hour.... not cool... so we got back off and went back to Grace's for lunch and more internet... we had to catch the 4:00 bus back to belize city to catch the last water taxt back to caye caulker ( or so we thought) thankfully there just happened to be a earlier one so we caught that one. the trip back also had some tarveling doozies... there was this one drunk guy... oo that was fun (and also in my travel drawings (: ) upon getting into the city, in the dark, we figured that the water taxis would not be running.. they don't exactly have headlights... so we got a very nice taxi man to take us to a nice safe hotel. when we got there it was a tad sketchy but we weren't going to be picky :/ it turned out to be rather nice... after a good nights sleep we got up early in the morning to catch the first water taxi to the island. when we got here we couldn't find gary... took us a while to find him but anyway... after a bit we took the canoe out for a spin... which is mostly what we did... the wind and current and paddeling weren't really working together... we met this boy, domonique, who showed us some stuff in the water, fish and stuff ... he found a large orange starfish and we got to hold it!!! to round out our day we took a shopping trip to the local markets for eating supplies. with much assistance from a fellow hostelite, megs, we concocted a sort of belezian mac & cheese and a veggie toss... both were quite tasty :) so now were just chilling !

and here are pictures...