Cold front!

A cold front came in last night after midnight.  It brought with it buckets of rain, and lovely cool temperatures.  Today's high was a delightful 74 F/23C.  However, with the high humidity, it was still warm enough to be in shorts.  For us, anyway.  The locals were dressed like it was Minnesota in January.  Seriously - winter coats and long pants! 

We slept in - until 8:30 people!  That may be some sort of record for me.  I'll chalk it up to a combination of a late bedtime, a Benadryl, and no itching.  We had breakfast at home (rolls from the bakery, fruit & coffee) and then lazed around all morning while things dried out a little.  Freaky was very happy to share the couch with whomever!

Around 1:30, we headed in to town on foot.  We learned on our November trip that bikes and sloppy Caye Caulker roads leave a white clay/sand stain on the back of your shorts/shirt that nearly impossible to remove!  We settled on lunch at Rainbow, which is a restaurant set out over the water with a lovely view.  We both had burgers & fries for a nice change of pace.  I had iced tea & Andrew had a Belikin.  Total was $20.50 US including tip.  

From Rainbow, we went in search of one of the "walking bakeries" they have on Caye Caulker.  We spotted Lloyd (aka Cake Man) yesterday when we were eating lunch, but by the time we finished and went to find him, he had vanished.  This is no small feat for a 400 pound man in a chef's hat pushing a giant cart full of baked items to do; but I tell you, he did it.  We searched every street in Caye Caulker (remember, there are only 4) on our bikes, to no avail.  We didn't find Lloyd today either (he typically starts his rounds after 3 pm), but we did happen across Errol, who had banana bread, tres leches cake & meat pies ($4 BZ for the cakes; $1 BZ for the meat pies) .  I took a picture of his cart for you to see, but it did not turn out (despite the fact that the pictures on each side of it were fine).  This will not surprise some of you, who know that electronics seem to malfunction at an alarming frequency in my hands.   If I can find either Lloyd or Errol tomorrow, I'll try again.  

Sloppy street after the rain.  A good day to leave the bikes at home!

We hiked back home and resumed slug positions for the rest of the afternoon.  I finished another book, and Andrew rested his eyes for a couple of hours.   About 6 pm, we walked back in to town to get Bert to stamp our dive books from last night's dive.  He told us that they had a few dives planned for today, but all were cancelled due to the wind & storm.  He said that tomorrow looks bad, also.  Whew - we lucked out with perfect conditions last night!   

Not especially starving after a late lunch, we meandered around trying to decide on a snack of some sort when we stumbled upon Anna.  Ahhhh!   We have been by Anna's pupusa stand every night since we have been here, and she has not been open.  We assumed that she was away, and were very disappointed about it.  Happily for us, she has returned!  She greeted us by name and we chatted while she made our food.  $12 BZ ($6 US) later, we headed home for a perfect dinner.   

Tomorrow is our last full day on Caye Caulker.  We don't know when we'll be back as we've got other trips planned through the end of 2014.   We'll keep our fingers crossed, though, that it's sooner, rather than later.