Cool Things
First of all--thanks for all the comments! We really enjoy reading them...
Cool things we saw yesterday:
Cool things we saw yesterday:
- A skull of a sacrifice victim embedded in a cave wall.
- An Amish youth driving his oxen-cart through orange groves.
- Blue Morpho, Banana Owl, and Glass Wing butterflies and hundreds of eggs, pupae, and caterpillars.
- A stray cat begging for food at Eva's Bar and Grill
- A lizard being chased by a car up a back-jungle road (ok so it was our car...but boy could that thing run).
- Hundreds of bats swarming around our heads.
Cool things we did yesterday:
- Drove our car through a creek - twice!
- Canoed through a pitch-black cave to visit the Mayan underworld.
- Visited the Green Hills Butterfly Farm.
Wow! No wonder we're so tired!
The highlight of the day was Barton Creek Cave. The Maya believed that man was created in a cave, and when you die you return to the cave and must fight the nine gods of the underworld to be reborn.
They also believe that the rain god, Chac, resides in the cave and when the Maya were in need of rain, they would go in to the cave and offer a human sacrifice to the rain god. Archaeologists have found remains of 29 different people in the cave. Luckily it's supposed to rain this weekend :)
That's all for now. Next time we are trying our hand at being Belizean John Waynes.
Traci and Roger
3 Comments:
Wow! You guys have done so much in the first couple of days!
And, you were very smart in the selection of your destination!
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/pf/0703/gallery.honeymoon_hotspots.moneymag/index.html
Have fun!!!!
Hey guys!
I'm getting exhausted just reading your posts!
Gary would love to go to Belize, so has been anxious to hear all about your trip. However, I mentioned the inch long ants and he knew it was all over for me! And now today you talk about bats...omg, they scare the heck out of me! I know, I know, they are here on earth for other purposes...not just to scare me! :)
Really though, what a terrific wedding/honeymoon/get away trip so far. You will have so many fond memories. I still remember our honeymoon in Disneyland! Chuckling, ok, I know it wasn't quite as worldly and adventurous, however, we did go on "It's a Small World"!!!
OK...enough...kisses to you!
K
Hi Roger and Traci,
We are at Mom and Dad's. Randy and Julie are here and we are having lots of fun (drinking wine)boys are beating girls at pinochle (they think). Mom's glad you survived Friday the 13th without being sacrificed to the Mayan Gods.
Everyone says Hi - the blog is great!! Mom loves the pics.
Love
Julie, Julie, Randy, Mom and Dad.
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