Photos from Belize
I'm sure none of you really cared for or read my Belize chronicles and I did really put them there for the sake of my own memory. But I think that there might be some interest in photos so I pulled all the good ones off the digital camera and shrunk them down. Here's a sort of photo history of my trip. I won't go to the trouble of linking them to the diary or even really chronicling them by day. I'll just group the pics by some sort of semi-random characterization. Whee! (All the links lead to different pictures)

The Hotel
-- This is the place we stayed. I took a number of pictures of it from outside and on the balcony, so you can easily see what we saw when we got up every morning.
-- Here are three pictures of the hotel from the dive boat as we were coming back into the Island: (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three) The second story windows facing the water were the windows to Tim's room. Justin and I had the next room over which, unfortunately, didn't have a view of the sunset but it actually got dark pretty early so we were usually up and about when it happened. Ah la. -- These are three pics of the beach from our balcony. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- These are two pics of the balcony itself-- don't ask me why. (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- This is the beach from down below.
-- The Hotel was right on the water and had lovely chairs and tiki lights for watching the sunset.
-- There was even a freaking hammock!!
-- A stormy looking beach.
-- A real iguana!!

The Island
-- Hmm... some random pictures of Caye Caulker itself so you can get an idea of how small it was.
-- Three pictures of the island from the airplane. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- The island from the water. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- Pictures of the wild part of the island on the other side of "the split." (the island was split in half by a hurricane) (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- The sign for Happy Lobster, the stupidest restaurant ever.
-- Rasta Pasta and One Love Jewelry.
-- A shack. Actually, it's a house. Most of the houses looked like this. Considering the weather, they're probably quite cozy.
-- An old, abandoned hotel near the split, which was never finished.
-- Three pictures of main street, the ONE STREET in town with shops on it. We walked down it every day. Multiple times. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- The liquor store near our hotel and its notorious mural. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- Go Slow.
-- The sign for Habaneros, one of the few good restaurants on the island.
-- Oh, and this cracks me up... I saw this guy's house on the way off the island the last day we were there. A jamaican zealot? (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- The sign for the ice cream place we ate at every day. What is Craboo??
-- Another random house.
-- The one-room airport.

Lamanai Ruins
-- These pictures are from the trip to the Mayan ruins of Lamanai that we made to the mainland.
-- This is Gustavo, our guide.
-- Belize city... cramped, small, and dirty.
-- Arriving to the dock at Lamanai.
-- A random bird showing off its plumage. (I wish I had a picture of the giant iguana)
-- An ibis on the river trip. (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- A menonite village on the river.
-- The stela replica and temple.
-- A relief of a big head on a mayan temple. Looks like it's about to sneeze. (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- The frumpy tourists hiding underneath a tarp on the way back up the river. This is what they looked like up close. God, they were obnoxious.
-- The high temple.
-- Two jaguar reliefs on the first mayan temple we were allowed to climb. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- Me swinging through the jungle on some vines. Seriously. It r0xx0red.
-- Close-ups of two of the temples. (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- A temple through the trees.
-- The back of a temple. Seriously, you couldn't tell it was there where it hadn't been excavated.
-- The harbor in belize city. Look at all the little boats! (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- The "Pup Again" Billboard on the way back to belize city.


Scuba diving
-- This is the dive boat that we went out on. These pictures were taken the first day we dove. It was not a pretty day.
-- On the last day, it was much nicer. You can get a better feel for the activity of the boat when everyone's not clinging to the side and vomiting.
-- This is how clear the water was.
-- Justin and I getting ready to dive.
-- Justin prepping his tank.
-- Justin and tim on the bow of the boat.
-- Me in the water.
-- Justin and I happy to FINALLY be having a nice day to dive. (Pic One, Pic Two, Pic Three)
-- Tim on the bow with one of our divemasters.
-- Me in my wetsuit with braids.

The Bar
-- Adrian, the bartender.
-- The bar from the outside.
-- Inside the bar.
-- Allllll the liquor. W00t.
-- The iguana from the bar that Justin wanted desperately to take home. He took fifty pictures of the damn thing, I swear.

Random people we met and glamor shots
-- Paula braiding my hair. Click here for the other pictures of my braids.
-- All three of us at breakfast on the last day.
-- Chester, the innkeeper's cat.
-- Justin, fearing coconuts!!!
-- Dale, our neighbor and a winemaker from Portland, Oregon.
-- Francisco from San Francisco. God was he weird but he played a mean harmonica.
-- I drew ahappyface on Justin's back with sunscreen. Kawaii!
-- Me on the beach.
-- Noah, this kid I met at the last breakfast. (He is SO cute.)<
-- Noah posing. (Pic One, Pic Two)
-- Pelicans!!!