Belize Day 6
Crab watching
Bird eating worm
Hanging out in the hammock
Chloe helping to put away clothes
Caris getting in on that action
Sup frog
Caleb listening to the band play
Belize Day 5
I’m little behind posting updates. Maybe if the wireless didn’t suck so much here, there would be more updates. Or maybe not.
Breakfast!
Boat ride to San Pedro
Blue Water Grill. Yvonne and I had our 1 year anniversary dinner here when we first came to Belize.
Going back home
Belize Day 4
It rained a little bit today. First rains of our vacation.
Po-po and Caris dancing at the Belizian Dinner night.
The bugs are killing me. I’m tasty.
Yvonne: How come Caleb doesn’t have any?
Caleb: I’m not tasty.
And the bug bites are only going to get worse.
Belize Day 3
Our sleeping arrangements aren’t ideal, at least not for me and Yvonne. We only have a 1 bedroom. So of course the kids get the bedroom with the air conditioning. And we’re on the couch. At least the kids get a comfy bed. We should go sleep outside.
Kids’ bed + crib
Chris & Yvonne’s bed
Caleb, Caris and I went swimming in the new pool today. It was about 80 degrees outside the pool. The water inside was probably about 60 degrees. Just a little cold.
The kids just love hanging out in the balcony.
Heading out to San Pedro (the main town)
Waiting for dinner.
Belize Day 1 & 2
After a long day of travel, we are in Belize now. We flew out of Ontario at 6am. I got about an hour of sleep. Yvonne, not wanting to bring a bunch of school books here, stayed up all night to read and take notes on them. The kids got woken up dark and early at 3:45. And of course they decided not to go back to sleep. Gonna be a long day of traveling.
We have a 2 and a half hour layover in Dallas. There’s a kids playground there to waste time at.
One two and a half hour flight down. One 2 and a half hour flight to go.
We were lucky enough to get a whole row to ourselves on both flights. Chloe even got her own seat.
Caleb & Caris 2nd short nap of the day.
The tired little bunch even slept through the landing.
From Belize City to Ambergris Caye
It was a little cloudy, a little rainy, and very humid. 5pm and we’re not even at the resort yet.
The kids enjoying a view from our balcony.
The kids chillaxing a warm day.
Caris got some cute facial expressions.
A chance to play in the sand.
Playing on the comfy bed outside.
Another Vacation?
We rented a golf cart the other day. On our way back to our resort from town, this guy stops us in the road. This guy happens to be one of those timeshare recruiter guys who offers you something in order to hear their spiel to buy a timeshare. Normally they give you free breakfast or lunch or even cash. We got $100 cash last time we were here. This was different though. Instead, he handed us this scratch off card like a lottery ticket.
Yvonne scratches her ticket gets one palm tree and 2 big X’s on her ticket. I scratch off my ticket and I got three palm trees. This is good, right?
Well, everyone is a winner here at Village Reef. That single palm tree gets you $25 or something. I don’t know the exact prize. But the real winner here is the three palm trees. We take a look at the back and that’s the big prize! There are three possible prizes. A) Caribbean vacation. B) $1000 HP Laptop. C) $700 US cash. I want the cash.
However the choice is not ours to make. There’s a “void if remove†part on the ticket will reveal what we actually won. However, we’ll have to go through the timeshare spiel in order to claim our prize.
The next morning we go back to there to claim our free breakfast and big prize. We meet up with Laura (who by the way was 100x better than the Williamsburg spiel-er). We were not interested, and went on to collect our prize. Guess what we got.
I could use a laptop or sell it. The cash works even better. But when are we going to be able to go on another vacation in the next 12 months? Worst off it’s not redeemable for cash and non-transferable (unless authorized, whatever that means). Hopefully we can sell this or give it away. The place was nice though.
No Nexus One for me yet.
Over the River and Through the Woods…
Off to Belize we go.
Mommy and Daddy and Caleb and Caris
Wake up early to go
Over the river and through the woods
Off to the airport we go
But Mommy and Daddy are late again
American Airlines says no
Over the river and through the woods
Off to home we go
The kids are tired, the parents are weary
But we’re going to sleep at home
Over the river and through the woods
Off to Belize we go
We’ll try tonight to go again
Our plans are put on hold