Upon uploading the photos on my camera, I realized I had way more Belize stuff to talk about (Laura sometimes hassles me about how many photos I take, but I think this is a good example of my totally horrible memory and why I need to document everything)
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K-Dogg takes one for the team and finishes Laura`s
Seaweed Shake.Also, K-Dogg takes one for the team
and grows a mustache. |
Belize is pretty unreal. In fact, if you took a bunch of 7 year olds and said, ``Here`s some money. You and your friends go make a country,`` they would probably end up with something closely resembling Belize. The streets are named adorable little things like ``Hummingbird Highway`` or ``Old Wife Street``. The food is usually some combination of coconuts, fruit, seaweed, and chicken. And people talk with these preshus-weshus little accents. Example: ``Hah Fah Yah Gwin?`` (say it!) is ``How far are you going?``
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Belize`s Wikipedia page is about
as ironic as they come |
English?! And how that so? Well, Belize was part of the British Empire for like, forever. Even now, they are technically ``Independent`` but they still have Queen Elizabeth the Second on their money. But all this Anglophilism isn`t winning them over with their neighbors. Guatemala still, at least officially, believes Belize is a stolen part of Guatemala, and none of the other Central American countries seem to like it all that much, either.
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Sunset. |
All of this means, of course, that white tourists love Belize! It`s clean, comfortable, and without all that sadness-inducing poverty. Your white-gloved waiter will gladly bring you another piƱa colada with a warm smile, unlike that shady guy in Guatemala who lifted your wallet, or the Maya lady who totally scowled when you took her picture/soul.
Speaking of obnoxious, money-wasting, totally-lovin`-it tourists, we totally were them. We sat on the beach, all day. We were barefoot the whole time. We drank seaweed shakes, and 2/3 of us liked them. We watched the sun set. Then the moon rise. We snorkled. We read. We made up a sport called Aquatic Coconut Ball and had a blast. He had Traveler`s Sickness, which is a classy name for The Runs. But is there any better place to have it?
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Moonrise. |
Dang! Who has a better life than you?
ReplyDeleteSo basically, you are saying if Guatemala had its way, the flag of Belize would feature a mushroom cloud like I thought it already did when I first glanced at it without my glasses? Can you transport nuclear weapons by donkey?
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