Caye Caulker day 2 and now Flores

Caye Caulker Day 2.
We ran errands on day 2.., what a busy day here on the Caye, must refill water bottles ($1 each), get bus tickets to Flores, Guatamla for Saturday, pick up our laundry, get breakfast, and sign up for our day snorkeling trip today, with Raggamuffin tours, next to our hotel. There are several people there we met last nite too, including two Italian girls but they ended up on the second boat. Our sail boat had three stops and the first stop had a lot of waves. I haven't snorkeled much and I started feeling a little panicy and had to go back to the boat. I requested a life preserver on the two other drops and that helped a lot. The other spots were known as Shark Rey alley and Hol Chen Reserve. The day was sunny and warm and I couldn't believe how much I could see. We saw some amazing "Eagle Rays" about 5 times the size as a sting ray and there were several of them swimming under us at once. The guide did some dives down through a water cave and coaxed an eel out of his cave for a bit, for it to then hit the guide in his mask. There was even a huge turtle we saw. This area is protected and there was a patrol boat collecting feess and making sure they was no illegal fishing going on. On the way back to the island, one of the guides dove off in the unprotected area for some conch and then made conch civeche fresh on the boat with our rum punch they kept feeding us. At some point, I (Rhonda) ended up steering the boat. Back to the Caye around 6 as the sun in setting, we ran to take showers, a quick nap and then back out on the sand with our Italian friends, for some of Ruby's lobster tail grilled and marinated, caught that day. Wow. Cathleen was happy wtih her marinated shrimp and of course, we threw on some jerk spices and more garlic. $15 total.
Saturday 6 AM.
Its pouring on the tin roof, and I realize how much as sea we are on an island about 500 yards wide. We have to get to the dock to catch the 7: 30 back to Belize. I wonder if the boat will run in rain like this! We get out the dock in a dry spell and about 7:45 am the boat arrives as we wait under a palapa with Cathleens new friend, a local dog. As we walk to the boat, I notice the tarp on it moving, its about 20 people underneath, and this is how we ride 45 minutes to Belize City, under a blue tarp. We get there, and its sunny now, and we have some breakfast at a chinese restarurant nearby including seom great coffee made in an Japanese old style percoalatore we are told. We go over the boat/bus station and make sure we have the right bus tickets with a lady at the booth and 15 mintues later are on the bus to Flores. Border crossin with unexpected money required (US $22) had us both a little leary and on our toes, but we quickly relaxed and continued on the bus way. The roads in Guatemala were much less smooth than in Belize. And we are in the jungle, now at a cute town called Flores, its an island on a lake. We bought our ticketse to Tikal for tomorrow at 3 AM so we can see the sunrise there and see the jungle animals. I guess its teh best way do it. A minibus picked up all of us on the bus here and took us to an ATM off the island (I know)... and then told us we wouldnt be able to get tour/bus/plane tickets tonite or tomorrow (Sunday), so we felt kind of pressured to buy the tickets now. Turns out we could have got a better deal at a local hostel for hte tour to Tikal and maybe even waited to buy our bus tickets til tomorrow. Oh well, we have our exit out, and overspent by about $10/each on the Tikal tickets. (350 Quetzel about $40 whent he hostel has it for 280 Quetzel).
Our hotel lucikly is only $10/nite and its on the lake with a great view. We walked up the hill in the town to the top where a local beginning of Chrismas gaterhing with a band, was going on. The streets are cobblesone probaby from the 16th century. Now were going to sleep soon to wake up at 2:30.