San Ignacio

We thought we were going to get the early bus tomorrow, but we slept in a took the 10 o'clock water taxi instead. My pack is still friggen heavy because I have not yet managed to get rid of any of my stuff. It all seems too useful. We took the water taxi into Belize city and then walked a couple of blocks to the bus station. The bus station was nuts. There was about 15 guys who would walk around and try to direct you on the right bus, and every guy would say something different. It was very confusing. We managed to catch the right bus though, and we made our way to San Ignacio. The bus ride was OK, but it was fairly long and extremely crowded. It was one of those old school busses painted red and white and used as a city bus. Some people had to stand up in the aisle, but luckily I got a seat. I sat beside this guy who smelt pretty bad. It was fairly excruciating. When we got to San Ignacio we booked into a hotel called "the Venus". Its a huge three story hotel. We each get our own bed, which is EXTREMELY nice. The room itself is kind of old and crappy, buts its pretty clean and we get a fan and a nice view. For some reason I was totally exaustged and just passed out for a couple hours while Sage and Zoe talked and wrote in their journals.

Later on we went to a resteraunt and got dinner. We all famished since we hadnt eaten anything all day except for a couple peices of fruit (yes pineapple).
After dinner we strolled the streets for a while, and I bought a hack-sack. We are all determind that we will become masters by the end of the trip.

Ive been getting some mosquito bites which is not cool at all. Zoe has this weird swiss instrument her cousin gave her that 'sucks' the poison out of your insect bites. We nicknamed it "suck my tick" and even correctly labeled it with a sharpie. It is truly beautiful.

Im not really sure what we are going to do tomorrow. I think we may just stroll around the town checking things out. Maybe the next day we will go on some type of a tour. There is this conoe race in early March that we are thinking of doing. Its a three day race down this river from San Ignacio to Belize city. It would be crazy-intense but we are going to look into it. Its kind of alarming that the only conoing practise we have is at Day camp when I was 10, and Grade 10 P.E. Class. Hmmmmmm.