Cozumel/Belize

Dec 19th and 20th
Cozumel and Belize

So the 19th was Cozumel, but this visit wasn’t nearly as exciting as the previous ones. But…I did get a hair cut! My friend told me there was a shop right outside the terminal that I could go to, so I decided to give it a shot. I was nervous going into it seeing as my Spanish will not be good enough to communicate what I’m looking for in a haircut, so I brought a picture of my last cut just to be safe. I went with Greg, the new guitar player, who wanted a haircut himself. We initially walked right by the shop because it was so small, there most have been four different stores cramped into the smallest area ever, so I’m not surprised we passed by it. When we did eventually figure it out, we went in to this tiny place via some glass sliding door you’d see as an entrance onto a porch. There were 4 women inside, terribly cramped, just talking waiting for whoever came by. Greg and I sat down in the only two chairs in the place and our hair dressers were then assigned to us. The shop had no sinks to pre-wash your hair, which made me nervous as well seeing as I’ve had my hair washed before a trim for what must be the last 8 years. I showed my lady the picture I took, she nodded and got started. The desk in front of me was certainly different than I’m used to. Usually, I see a fairly large shelf with many organized drawers, along with a series of products by the mirror. This place had the shelf, I guess, a single drawer with two pairs of clippers and a random collection of plastic attachments floating around, and as far as products go, ha. There was one jar in front of me that was entitled “Gorilla Snot”, of which I prayed would never touch my hair, which thankfully didn’t happen. There was a slightly more normal product stacked on top of the snot, but that was it. The two hair dressers shared the scissors, combs, and spray bottle for wetting the hair. Mid way through the styling, my lady opens up a plastic package containing a ladies pink Bic razor…I’m confused. She then squeezes some cream from an unlabeled bottle like thing, and rubs it on parts of my face and begins trimming around my beard. I guess I appreciated that she was going the extra mile by shaping my facial hair, but when it was all over, I could certainly detect a Mexican flair to my facial hair I feared might happen. She also cleaned up the back of my neck with the razor. It made me nervous because when I shave, I have an electric razor I use, I was just waiting for her to slice my head off with this pink piece of garbage. But all said and done, I made it out with just a tiny nick on my neck, but after feeling the freshly shaven areas, it was obvious that the blade couldn’t have been further from my skin. The hair cut was advertised as $8, so that was good, and I gave her $12 considering the beard shaping I didn’t really need. I wanted to take a picture of the place, but unfortunately was so concerned with the masses of hair covering my face as I walked out that I forgot entirely till we were a couple blocks away. End result, I’m slightly disappointed with how she shaped my hair and even made some modifications when I got back to the room. For $12, I guess it was worth the story, and the hair will certainly even itself out, and I don’t look like a complete moron, but I wasn’t exactly impressed by the Mexican quality of hair styling. Maybe I should have known by the posters hanging on the walls that obviously had been there since the mid 80’s, but whatever, at least I’m Gorilla Snot free! The rest of the day was nothing spectacular, just a big band set.
And for the 20th, our Belize day, I didn’t even get off the ship. Between my Crew Welfare meeting in the morning and the 90 minute rehearsal at 1:00, there wasn’t any time to get off. But that’s ok, Belize doesn’t have that much for me anyways. The show for the night was ok, way too long, but the music didn’t suck. The guest was Kenny James, 13 time winner of Star-Search. We haven’t had a guest performer for about a month, it was weird getting new music and having to read a completely new show again. But that all aside, that was about it for the day. Thanks!