Today we managed to tag along with a little family going on a tour. The owner of the tour company was their Uncle and the rest of them were all on vacation. The public tours were closed for the month, but we caught him before they took off and he let us tag along. Yep, just their family, and me and Kylee. A little bit awkward.
We were just in one boat, we're just unloading here and stepping through the other one to get off. We started off on a boat in the Carribean Sea.
Eventually we took a turnoff to Rio Cocoli which supposedly has Puma's, Jaguars, and Manatee (of all things.)
Of course all we saw were a bunch of birds and little tiny Jelly Fish! They were so cute, but also scary. Luckily we didn't notice them until one of the girls got stung and we were about done swimming. Once we started looking for them they were all over!
Next we went to an exotic animal reserve in the farthest netherlands of the river. The owner of the reserve rescues animals, nurses them back to health and then sells them to zoos. It was interesting, but also stinky and a little bit sad. No electricity at the farm, can you imagine? I don't know how he manages to feed them all.
Kylee took a bajillion pictures of these little guys...I have about 40 pictures of different animals.
Then we went to a beach. It was a nice beach and we threw out a sheet from the hotel and read our books. This is what the beach looked like:
This beach is called "Playa Blanca" or "white beach" meaning that it is a white sand beach. They would die at all the sand at a California beach! The nice family we were with included us in their family lunch.
They had pre-ordered chicken soup from the restaurant on the beach. It was classic Guatemala. It looked good, but super oily.
It comes plain and then you add lime, salt, rice and chicken to it. They bring out the chicken (the WHOLE chicken) and then you tear it apart and eat it with your soup. Corn tortillas on the side, of course. The worse part was that we couldn't quite tell what was in the soup. Kylee and I both found this round thing that looked a little like a baby onion but it had little tiny round things hanging off it. It was also squishy. We asked what it was and the guide said "oh, you are lucky, you got an egg in yours. Try it, it's really good" An egg? really? didn't look like any egg I had ever seen. "It is lucky because the chicken was with child"
It looked like this! Only cooked... IT'S THE CHICKEN'S OVARY! AND IT'S PREGNANT!
EW! Gross. Not going to happen. The guy saw my face and asked if he could have it. Then HE ATE IT. It was over for us, Kylee and I picked around the soup and tried to eat the rice out of it but we were starving and totally grossed out. We politely waited 2 hours and then ordered a "hamburgeuse con pappas" Which is supposed to be a hamburger and fries but was really not. It was more like pieces of chicken on a bun with greasy potatoes. Equally gross but we were getting desperate. (not equally gross, not even close) Funny thing is, they told us this chicken is special, it is home raised and better than other chicken. I was not a fan.
We had dinner in town that night. We actually found a pizza place and the poor waiter ran all the way across town to get me a coca cola light. If I had known he was going to run across the town for it, I would have told him not to worry about it, but I didn't know til he got back. I guess he could tell I needed it. :) The pizza was a welcome change and had a TON of cheese on it. We ate too much and were stuffed so we came home and read our books on the hammocks. It's becoming a nightly ritual, and not a bad one at that!
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