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Our first day with no plans. Ahhhh. We woke up and headed out to the courtyard for breakfast. Renita served us freshly squeezed juice, local tea, and two plates of fresh pineapple, papaya, grapes and melon. Next came the garnachas, a local breakfast favorite, fried corn tortillas topped with beans, shredded cabbage, salsa and cheese. She also had fried cinnamon triangle things with brown sugar and granola which were completely delicious. We ate til we were stuffed then grabbed two bikes and headed out to explore the city.

We stopped at a few shops and saw a lot of San Pedro this way. Jimmy bought some shoes, we bought some souvenirs for our family, rode around and saw the beach.

We eventually grabbed lunch at a little deli place and headed back to our room to change into our swimsuits. We chilled down by the beach, I read, Jimmy slept, and we both took a few pictures.

Around 4:00 we headed back toward the room to get our bikes and go see the crocodile feeding at 4:30. Apparently local kids will lure the crocs in from the lagoon and feed them, sit on them and do a variety of unwise, dangerous and extremely fun activities in true Belizean fashion. We jumped on the bikes and headed down to the lagoon.

We saw the crowd of people standing in the distance at just about the time a guy came jogging out of the bushes slapping his arms and saying, “Be careful, the mosquitoes are really bad down there.” We figured, okay there must be a few biting, no biggie. Literally seconds later, I looked up and the back of Jimmy’s shirt had at least five or six HUGE mosquitoes on it, he was reaching down trying to slap his legs while still riding the bike. I got bitten on the face before I knew what was happening. We rode down toward the crowd of people and it only got worse. I turned around and rode straight back the way I came, Jimmy followed.

We got a little bit of distance behind us and agreed there was no way we were going to risk getting some kind of crazy jungle virus to see the crocodile feeding, and maybe we would come back tomorrow with some industrial strength bug spray, and possibly a mosquito fog truck and some grenades for good measure. I have to say that compared to all the dangerous things we did since we came to Belize, those mosquitoes were the scariest thing we saw, hands down. They attacked furiously and in Jimmy’s case they literally drew blood when they left him, there were streaks of blood running down his leg. Yikes.

We went back to the hotel and took a dip in the pool and just chilled til we got hungry for dinner. Jimmy wanted Mexican so we headed over to a place called Caliente, which was a nice walk down the dark beach. We both got the fajitas. Delicious and not too pricey. We came back to the room and passed out from our exhausting day of doing nothing. Belize will do that to ya.

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