Food

Tuesday morning, ok - it was 11:00 am - we wandered down the beach to Estelle's for some breakfast. We arrived to find that sadly, they are closed on Tuesdays. Being ever flexible, we kept walking and found that Celi's had just opened for lunch and went there instead. The floor was covered in sand that had recently been raked and it felt really nice and cool on our feet. Rayne had a cheeseburger (in paradise), Steve had burritos, and I deciding to try whatever was recommended or special, the Tuesday Special - Salbutes. Everything was good!

We strolled around town 'til we were hot & sweaty and then stopped in for ice cream at Manelli's. Locals were in there watching television and there were about 8 little boys noisily playing the video games.

By that time the weather cleared up and we were able to get out to the pool. The wind was still blowing and the water at the end of the pier was still stirred up. We hung at the pool which has a swim-up bar, but no bartender - very sad. We had purchased a gigantic can of beer AKA a mini-keg and were running back to the room for re-fills. Rayne would then jump behind the bar and hand me my drink as I sat at one of the bar stools. While she did a great job at it, we're hoping she'll set her career sights a little higher!

As usual, we visited with everyone at the pool. There were two couples from N. Carolina - Rod & Jackie and Dave & Brenda. They were going out on a sail boat the next day to snorkel and visit Caye Caulker - we decided to tag along and Rod walked Steve over to make our reservation - we were set!

That night for dinner, Fish Johnson, a local guy who offered to cook us dinner came over and made us a lobster feast! Fish has 6 children - some in Mexico, some in Corozol, in Northern Belize, and some elsewhere. He had to take a break every now and then to check on things at the vegetable stand just outside the gate - we thought he likely needed another hit off a doobie.

He prepared 8 lobster tails with tomoatoes, limes, cilantro, garlic salt and not just a little bit of butter. He wrapped them in several layers of foil and put them on the grill. He also prepared thinly sliced potatoes and spiced them similarly, wrapped them in foil, and plopped them on the grill, too.

WOW! That was a great meal! We invited Fish to eat with us, as there was too much there for the 3 of us. He joined us, but explained that lobster isn't his favorite - he much prefers fish - go figure!

After dinner, Fish cleaned all the dishes and hauled out the trash while we lazed around with full bellies!