The rest of our weekend

Once we got back to Santa Elena, we showered up and went to the Greenhouse (where the other volunteers live) to see what they were up to that night and the next day. Then we went to Hannahs, which our peace corps buddy Dominic, swears by. I am now a fan like he is! We had the most amazing dinner we have had since being in Belize! Jim's eggplant with tomatoes, basil, cheese and jerk spice on them were to die for! After dinner, we just crashed since we had been up since 4:15am.

Sunday morning, I made the traditional flap jacks that they have here. Mine turned out EXACTLY like Rhode Island dough boys so Jobby was in heaven. Then we hit up this area called Sandy Bay - which is definately misnamed. There is no sand and it's not a bay. It is just this crazy hike through the jungle to get up river from Santa Elena and San Ignacio to another part of the Macal River where there is a rope swing and some crazy high rocks to jump off of. We went with our friends Lyndsay (from the UK), Libby (from NYC who went to ND) , Illana (from Santa Cruz) and Anastasia (from Canada) . Lyndsay and Libby were the only two that exceled at the rope swing. We hung out there for awhile and then went to the outside market to get some fruit and veggies for the week. We made it our goal to go back to Sandy Bay soon to get better at this swing!

Sunday night, we went to our friend Amanda's place who works for Pro Belize and is from Texas for a going away party for our friend Sarah from Denmark. She has this great place in San Ignacio with a crazy roof deck that has a great view of the city. San Ignacio is really hilly like San Francisco so it's a nice reminder of home! It was a fun mellow party minus the fact that I got no less than 50 bug bites all over my legs! I thought I was immune to them by now !