salsa sarong

chapter 3..... abi has left for america this morning, maybe with a big sigh of relief, who knows... but it is definitely the end of a small era in our lives and she will now be reading this in some other part of the world, thinking oh my god i'm so glad i'm far away from that psycho..... here are some things i will miss abi:

mosquito panic!
panic about the temperature!!
only joking, these were legitimate panics, and i'm just being mean. i would say they are definitely more valid panics than me having monkey panic or cave panic...

so here are some actual things i will miss:
laughing at a table tennis ball with a human face and sticks and leaves in its mouth!!
laughing at things that aren't funny to other people or even to us, but we've lost the plot so they are
OMFG! so totally psyched right now. totally bi.
NNNNNGGGGGGGG!
termite hair!!!
hola, se vende cabron?
butterfly stickers! did you know stickers could get that exciting?
the would you rather game
the fatkins diet
the coffee bean dance!!! and the i'm a potato dance!!!!
discussing our manifesto to save the world from it's own greed and laziness
watching that video where i get squashed by a massive wave
playing keep or delete! biddly bing biddly bong!
the mackenzie minute!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, enough reminiscing for now. it's probably not a good spectator sport. anyway abi have a totally cool psyched time in el canyon grande and also in new zealand and australia and singapore and hope you meet some ace people and don't fall over in your walking boots in the canyon!!! xxxxxxxxx

to update on our last bits of adventure together:
sunday
was belize independence day. we got the boat over to san pedro, the big town on the island to our north, called ambergris caye. it's bigger than caye caulker, there is traffic there and more people, and it is hotter. we wandered around and ate a bacon sandwich and got hot and saw some independence day procession preparations (that's quite hard to say), then got the boat back and hung out on caye caulker again and ate food some more.

monday
we went snorkelling on a boat trip off the island. this was really brilliant. here is a list of what we saw (in no particular order of chronology or importance in case any of them are reading this):
turtles
a little nurse shark (we touched his stomach it was sort of light and airy and a bit bobbly. we though it would be not like this, so that was interesting. perhaps he hadn't eaten much that day)
a manatee!!! (aka a sea cow). so cute, it was just swimming along all on its own
an actual hammerhead shark (i swam away very fast at this point trying not to panic in case he sensed my panic and came and ate me. he was at the bottom of a deep bit and swimming the other way so i don't think he saw us, but it was pretty scary).
lots of coral
lots of really cool colourful fish, some of them were snapper but i'm not sure about the others

we drank rum punch on the way back to caye caulker and listened to reggae music on the boat. one of the other passengers, an australian, suddenly was very drunk and in the process of trying to throw the leftover salsa in the sea, actually threw it on top of me and in my drink which was very funny. we went for a drink with her after this, but she was actually too drunk to speak very much, and she wandered off after a while to talk nonsense to some other islanders.

we went out for dinner that night and bumped into the other people from our snorkel trip, so gate crashed their dinner which was fun. for us anyway. then we went to a bar/club at the other end of the island with them, and met some people who worked for a different snorkelling company, who told us that the one we'd gone with were not as good as them, and they were run by an english lady who didn't care about the islanders and just came here to make lots of money. i felt a bit bad then, but we weren't really to know. as a passing comment, the guy that told us this was called steve wright, which made me laugh as he wasn't like steve wright of middle england radio 2 fame, but more like a cross between mr t from the a-team, and snoop doggy dogg. ha ha. (sorry mum and dad you won't know who those people are probably).

tuesday
hangover. (for me anway - abi went to buy me a coffee which i was very grateful for!). we got the boat back to the mainland, and stayed in a swanky hotel in belize. swanky by belizean standards that is. cold buffet for lunch. had a swim (nice), watched cartoons, and discovered how funny family guy is, cannot believe i have only just discovered this. i drifted off and woke up to what i thought was abi crying (at my imminent departure i presumed) - it was actually her laughing her head off at family guy, they were all being sick on the floor from drinking too much medicine. brilliant. we were in a strange mood with it being our last night together, tired and slightly apprehensive about our next bit of travelling i guess, so we didn't exactly take full advantage of all the hotel had to offer. which was a bowling alley, a gym, a casino, and the calypso night club. it was pretty much a ghost town / hotel, so there wasn't exactly much of an atmosphere even with all these amazing things on offer. we ate some dinner and watched cartoons and read our books.

wednesday
today. took abi to airport, got cab back to bus station, got on chicken bus (still no chickens i'm afraid clare..), am in san ignacio, it's been raining all afternoon. i'm going to sit and drink a beer or something now and probably talk to myself a little bit now there's no abi... i'll be back in guatemala on friday to start my spanish school, which i'm really looking forward to. here's hoping my brain still works though...

xx