Lazy sunny Sunday

December 29: evening update

Dad and I walked around the entire city of Belmopan and I was able to explore new markets that I have never seen before. Bonus: I found some amazing Taiwanese clothes at the markets there. The Taiwanese own almost all of the large markets in Belmopan, and it turns out that I had never been to any of these large markets before this trip. We also stopped off at a yard sale of sorts and I found some shoes. Poor dad! But he kept busy talking to everyone or standing just outside the door of the shops with his arms crossed and the classic "Bob look" on his face. For lunch, we ate at the Taiwanese shop: Veggie Garden, my favorite restaurant in 2010. It was all vegetarian and authentic, so I think poor dad would rather have had loads of Americanized-high salt- Chinese food, but I enjoyed it.

We took a bus back to the banana bank road, and it took forever to see which bus we should take. We ended up missing our bus twice and having to sit around for some extra time while the next bus arrived.


December 30:

Today was possibly our laziest day yet. I will be happy to get back in the field tomorrow, honestly. I finished up some odd jobs- like creating a new Compass2G site for the sections that I teach next semester. We also managed to send our laundry off for the nice ladies of Banana Bank to do. It was quite a load, and Dads stuff was SUPER stinky, so I hope those poor ladies make a good wage today. We should probably throw in a nice tip when we leave, or maybe just be satisfied that they drank some nice rum ;)

We also surveyed the organic garden at Banana Bank this morning. Some of the plants were too small or not grown in the US regularly, so I had to ask a nearby neighbor/gardener for his expert plant identification opinion. We said a happy goodbye to our upstairs neighbors who have been here since before Christmas as well. They like to stay up late and the little boys wake up super early, so sometimes I wake up to what sounds like a mini-elephant-herd stomping around on my ceiling. I am quite convinced that they walk around like Lucy Ball doing "slowly I turn". "Step by step, inch by inch....."

Right now, Dad has stolen my laptop again and is playing Christmas music. He has discovered the power of YouTube!