Weekend Adventure

Finally the weekend including visits to ATM and Mountain Pine Ridge.
Bright and early we had our driver Mr. Gomez  drive us to the bus station with Johnny cakes in our backpacks. It was a little sketch as we had never ridden the bus and weren't too sure where we were headed.- Tea Kettle. Cat made sure to tell the bus driver we were going to Tea Kettle but he had no clue what she was saying! Luckily a guy behind us translated in a Kriol accent. We all passed out extremely hard on the bus and were in a state of extreme panic when the driver said "Last Stop". To get the bus divers attention to figure out what was happening- Poh: "Um, excuse me sir.."- No response. Cat wide-eyed in her best Kriol accent yells "HEYY!" which finally made the driver turn around ( we were right behind him the whole time).

Got off the bus, waited on the side of the road in Tea Kettle for the tour to pick us up. Fortunately we had Johnny cakes to eat while we waited.

ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) was AMAZING! Google it! We had to make a trekk through the jungle including walking through knee deep water, almost tripped like 100 times on the slippery rocks! Finally got to the cave entrance and strapped on our helmets and head lamps...we all looked so hot obviously! The adventure began and lasted for 2 hours within the cave. We had to swim, walk, crawl and contort our bodies through the craziest rocks. Highlights included: the neck chopper, cliff hanger, human remains and mayan artifacts. We had a 4 ft tall mestizo tour guide who was amazing and gave us the history of the mayan culture! We have amazing pictures which will explain the wildness of this experience! Afterwards we had to trekk back through the jungle/rivers and were so dehydrated....cat started hallucinating mirages of water/rolled her ankle due to lower limb weakness and sulls almost punched a girl on our tour for her water. We had an amazing lunch and drove to San Ignacio, a small town an hour from ATM. We spent the night there in a hostel called tropicool (great play on words) and went for pizza at a local restaurant where we met some older gentlemen aka cradle robbers with very very young wives...cat's response "youre kidding me right?!!?" nope not a joke! Once back in the room had our first gecko experience which resulted in screaming fits by both sulls and poh.

Woke up bright and early to start the next adventure to mountain pine ridge. Had the best tour guide who gave us the history of Belize and told us some very questionable jokes! We got to experience another amazing cave..where cat had a 127 hour moment! Next was two stops at different waterfalls, poh took a swim in the water but got scared of the potential anaconda! Made our way back to San Ignacio to catch the bus to Belize City. Another packed ride where poh and cat had to take turns standing, we all passed out again on the bus which included mouth breathing, head bobbing and a lady falling asleep on poh.

Finally made it home after a sketchy walk and went to the local park with our "brothers" mark, jon and tony for some tacos and papusas from local street vendors...oops sorry OCASP! Went back home to experience some gold rum and coke yummm. We will bring some home with us!!

Overall amazing first weekend, counting down the days until next weekend. We are planning on going to the islands for some snorkeling (with sharks) and beach time!

Until then puppies,
 xo 

Steak, Poh and Krust