To Belize or not

Our friends, Dick and Gwen, asked us as we were finishing our time at Rita's to join them on a trip to Belize this weekend. After feeling tied to her business and house for a while, we jumped at the chance. Road trip - yeah baby! Well we packed our little bags and were waiting at our gate when they picked us up this morning. We had taken a bike ride earlier and were a little shocked by the ferocity of the wind. It was coming out of the east so we didn't think too much about it. We just thought that we'd get to Playa Del Carmen via the car ferry more quickly with the wind at our back. We were a little disappointed to find that the ferry was cancelled. We didn't pout for long though. As always seems to happen here, the day developed quite nicely. Rita came over as we were mulling over our options with Dick and Gwen. Rita brought some chilled Chardonnay from South Africa and some pistachios and pound cake. After polishing that off, we went to lunch a great Cuban place and then to a movie (Knowing with Nicholas Cage). We had read mixed reviews on the movie. The NY Times thought it was laughable and Roger Ebert thought it was wonderful (we are really confused that he is still doing reviews after he died). We're thinking that there is something to be said for listening to reviews by live people as we sided with the NY Times. Still, though, always a fun experience to go to the movies here. We like trying to read the Spanish subtitles - very often they bear little resemblance to what is being said in English. The popcorn is always good, too.