Asking Anastasia: Update 24-27 October

Hey people-

So I'm still stuck in Cayo with my friends at their "country" house. It's funny actually because when I think of "country" I think of hot, flat farm land with a million cows and/or cotton fields. (Much like the environment I grew up in).

From my other post, the land where I stayed is hilly, green, humid, with palm trees- however... still cows. :)

For the day of my birthday (24 October, Sunday), I blew out my birthday candle which was not on a cake- it was actually an emergency candle for power outages- which we used all night long as the hurricane rattled and rolled the house!

Because we are staying almost literally in the middle of nowhere, it was pitch black! Trying to shut all of the windows in the dark was interesting, but it didn't help that it was raining with high winds! A few hours after, the wind had picked up even more, and we discovered that some of the windows were not shut all the way. Additionally, the door to my room would not stay shut- Joe almost got blown away!

The two days after the storm were spent relaxing at the house- nothing extremely exciting happened, however, we had this yummy meat for dinner on the 26 Oct.

While the longest piece of meat I've ever seen was cooking, I went inside to find my kitty princess Phoenix was making herself comfortable in my room.

27 October, I finally got out of the house! For me, being cooped up for too long makes me anxious. We decided to go into San Ignacio Town to play and get internet (thank God). I was in town long enough to post the update a few days ago: Post-Hurricane Update.

View of San Ignacio

When I came on my trip to Belize two years ago with one of my friends, we stayed in San Ignacio, and ate at Hannah's that had the best lamb curry that I've ever had- granted, I don't like lamb OR curry, but this was phenomenal.