We arrived in Belize City around 4pm the following day with a stop on the way in The Guanacaste National Park -it sounds better than it actually was, but at least we stretched our legs a bit.Belize City itself was really not impressive at all. Very dirty, nasty and chaotic. Oh, did I mention that it has population of 70K (lil bit bigger thanSan Rafael) with almost 8 murders per month! Safe city right?! Yuck... Needless to say we couldn't wait to get on our flight and get the heck out of there. Luckily, they were able to accommodate us rather quickly and in no time we found ourselves on board this tiny plane where Patty was the co-pilot (God help us!) Luckily,
Patty didn't touch anything and let the pilot do all the work and we safely landed in San Pedro within the next 20 minutes.We got a cab and arrived in Changes of Latitude - our B&B home for the next four nights. Renita the co-owner was a very very nice lady who made us
feel very welcomed and gave us some pointers about the layout of things on the island and places to see and do. After settling in and couple of drinks we headed out in search of our dinner. Once in San Pedro we could finally understand what Belize was all about - this was it. Forget the mainland.... the islands are where its at! The vibe was very very different... more like a Caribiean island and the people were actually nice. They all had the easy going no rush attitude. 
We loved it! Chris and I were finally able to stop bitching about Belize and enjoy it for what it was... the islands. The part we didn't like though were the prices. Even in the cheapest and not so clean place you can expect to pay $20+ for a plate. That said ... we also had the best shrimp burrito we have ever had!!! We finished the day in the bar on a beach listening to some Regee. Not a bad day at all.
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