San Pedro- "I Like That"

So as we stated we took a mini trip within our trip. If you care this is the route we took...

Dateline Monday January 30 2012: We hop on a Water Taxi headed for San Pedro. An hour and half later we see this...

Needless to say we were excited. When we arrived we meet our gracious hosts. The Kay family. A wonderful couple. Dennis is the only Elder involved with sign. They opened their lovely upstairs apartment to us for the week.

This beautiful apartment is in the Belize Yacht Club right on the beach. We were so excited to stay there. We had hot showers, AC and yes the internet! Brother Kay and his wife were off the next day to celebrate their anniversary. So that night we got a chance to chat with them for a while. He told us the plans for the following week. He also gave us the keys and said “Welcome and have fun”. First things first, we took showers. Warm showers! Following that we went for dinner. We ate at the Blue Water Grill. The food was wonderful.

Tuesday we showed up at the Kingdom Hall for preaching. We had hoped to go out with ASL, but only English was out. So we went out with a sweet local sister and a family from Canada. The father was the speaker from the previous Sunday we were later told. One thing I should share...

This is the Kingdom Hall parking lot. Yep those are golf carts. In San Pedro most people use them as their main transportation. That’s right we went out preaching in golf Carts!

The next day Becky and Crystal were not feeling well so we took a lazy day. Most of the week was cloudy and some rain. So we didn't do a whole lot. We did do some exploring. We could have done more if we had more money. San Pedro is a vacation spot so not cheap. Thursday we all prepared to interpret the meeting that night. But when we got to meeting no deaf showed up so we had the night off. After listing to one brothers talk I was relieved. He had a heavy Creole accent. Pew!

When Friday rolled around I was a bit stir crazy. I look online for things to do in San Pedro. One thing I found recommended renting a golf cart and heading south to stand on the southernmost point of the Yucatan Peninsula. So we did.

We had so much fun. We did some golf cart 4 wheeling. The road was sand and it had rained all day, so it was cut up by big pot holes full of sandy water. We saw some incredibly beautiful spots. Pictures just don't do them justice. But if you want take a look at more photos see link below. We found a spot that said follow path to Mayan Trading spot. So we followed, and followed, and followed. We followed for a while. I ran ahead to see if I could see the end. I couldn't. We didn't have long to get the cart back, so we decided to give up on the hunt. :( But for only like $25.00 US we had a really nice adventure. Take that tour companies! We also got some huge beautiful sea shells for free.

That evening we celebrated Crystals one year anniversary in Belize. We had fresh made chicken wings and some local coconut rum drinks. I was hooked on the chicken wings! Ty, they were way better than Albertsons. :)

Oh take a look at the fearsome guards posted at the entrance to the club.

Dateline February 4-5 2012:

Finally the sun came out. The weekend was beautiful. We spent Saturday morning meeting the local deaf and inviting them to the special meeting Sunday. You see normally they just interpret the English meetings Sunday. But if they can get a speaker in sign they will hold a special sign Meeting. I digress back to Saturday, the afternoon and evening were spent swimming in the Caribbean Sea and eating an expensive dinner. I wasn't happy with the restaurant choice but of our guide, but it was nice. We spent the day with Dennis and Trent. Trent and his family are from the states. Dennis in from Belize City. They all support the ASL group. They were very hospitable and welcoming. This is having lunch after service.

Sunday we had the special meeting. I gave a talk followed by Congregation Bible Study. Later some of the deaf still wanted to go to English meeting. So the three of us were able to help translate the meeting. Becky did the talk, it was full of science facts and statistics. And the brother didn't take his time covering them. One deaf girl said Becky did awesome. I felt the same. After meeting we ate and did some more swimming. Oh it should be noted that this was after sunset. Night swimming in the Caribbean sea! It was awesome.

Monday we packed cleaned and headed for home. But as for San Pedro, I can sum it up only with the Immortal words of Tylisha “Jazz Feet” Ruffin : “I like that!”

For more photos click here.

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