Peso Millionaires: Belize

The boat ride from Guatemala to Punta Gorda, Belize was only about 45 minutes. From there we took a two and a half hour bus ride to Placencia, a southern caye with great beaches. It took us only about 5 minutes to walk to our "hotel" a set of six cabins on the beach. The guy working said the cabins were 60 dollars a night, 55 if we stayed for 2 nights. "And what if we stay for 5 nights?"
"45."
"Deal."
We ended up staying 7.
The first thing we did was walk to a grocery store to stock up on the essentials: beer, rum, chips and salsa. We had a fridge and a coffee maker in our room, which really came in handy.
Belize is s cool place. Pretty relaxed. We didn't do much there besides drink our rum and read books underneath the palm trees. We swam a lot too, but got scared after we both got stung by jellyfish.
One day some tree trimmers came by and cut down all the old branches. One wouldn't come down so Brad and I spent a few hours swinging on it. Another day we took all of our empty beer bottles and constructed a pyramid.
Almost every day for lunch we walked to town and either went to Gloria's for her delicious bbq chicken or had chicken burritos from a street vendor. For dinner we toddled over to the Barefoot Bar, about twenty steps away, which made it even easier to toddle home.
One afternoon we went on a walk and I noticed a sign announcing fresh cinnamon rolls baked every day 7 to 7. The next morning I got up early and wandered over. As I stood outside the locked building that I thought might be the bakery I asked the two guys loitering outside if I was in the right place:
"Is this John's Bakery?"
"You wanna buy?"
"Uh huh."
"Hey John," he hollers, "somebody wanna buy."
So John comes trudging down all disgrutled and opens up his bakery. As soon as he's in he hands me a bag a sliced white bread.
"Um, aren't there any cinnamon rolls?"
"Nope."
"Okay. I'll just come back later then."
"Not till Tuesday."
It was Sunday.
But we fully embraced the relaxed attitude of the locals and had a nice vacation from vacation. It was too terrible to leave. The real world was a shock. More on that later....