Leenda

Last day and night here. Very lazy morning spent blogging, watching TV and packing. Very windy and overcast...cold front moving through so good day to chill....ha..get it...cold front...chill!!! Checked weather channel for possible...hopeful...flights delays...none damn it. Did shopping in the craft stalls along the beach. Brunch at Caye Caulker Pizza. Talked with the owner and gave him suggestions for white conch pizza with or without bacon. Also told him that a friend of ours with celiac disease was able to eat his pizza with no side effects. He said he'd tried many combinations of water and different flours before finding right combination for his pizza crust. He has no definite answer to why his crust can be tolerated by those sensitive to gluten. His theory is that the water he has to use is bottled filtered ... read more

Friday we awoke to the cuckoo clock and barking dog alarms at 6:30 AM. The first water taxi didn't have enough room for the passengers at Caye Caulker so we had to wait for them to send another boat...30 minute delay to Belize City where we met Gustavo, our tour guide. We had a hour drive in the van on the western highway then a really bad secondary road. The pot holes could have swallowed up a cow and there were lots of them. The Caves Branch park in Belmopan was our final destination for cave tubing and zip lining. Gustavo took us to the zip lining base first and we met our two guides. This zip line facility is only a year old and very safe. The guides got us into our gear and we ... read more

Tuesday morning brought the boys back to Caye Caulker for a visit. Honestly...I think they really missed us all....or were terribly bored...turned out to be both. We met them at the water taxi dock and walked down to "Island Magic" where the girls were staying. This place is new within the past year so had a good size pool with surrounding patio, hot tub and outdoor bar. On either side of the hot tub is a small waterfall with carved turtles riding the surf. The bar blocks most of the ocean view...don't get why they did that and it doesn't open until 3 PM....what's up with that??? The girl's room had a really nice bathroom, indoor hammock, small flat screen TV, balcony and tiny kitchen with full size fridge. Fred and I agreed we like Seaside ... read more

Hard to believe we're done with our first week here. Saturday morning started around the pool...a little earlier than usual for all of us....except for one.....Senor Fred. A few folks went out for breakfast..I stayed and had coffee and pastry served in the hotel bar. The boys went to wake up Fred with a group snuggle on our bed...Dani and I documented the whole bawdy event. The boys had to pack their bags...checkout is 10 AM and be ready for the afternoon water taxi to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye. The cocktails started and Jeremy had his first "Granny panty ripper"...our own concotion....same as a panty ripper but with a floater of dark rum. Fred had joined us by then and suggested adding a tootsie roll to the granny panty ripper for effect...what a guy! He ... read more

Good morning. It's a lovely day here again in paradise. Wind calmed down yesterday and today looks to be the same. I have to back track to Wednesday night when Fred and I went to the Sports Bar to play in the international trivia contest. There were 6 teams most with 4-6 people...we were the only team of 2. Fred was a superstar at geography, pretty good at history and all I knew was that emu eggs were green. The game lasted about 90 minutes with us winning 3rd price....$20bz off our tab. Thursday morning we got up at 6 am. We'd set alarms on both our cell phones so we awoke a cuckoo clock and a barking dog...you guess who had which one. Had a really great breakfest at Cafe Amore then walked to the ... read more

Good morning y'all (as our friends jean and herman would say). Tuesday was a do nothing day. After breakfast we decided to visit a part of the island we hadn't been to yet. We walked south along the beach towards the airport. At Popeye's Grill they were roasting a pig outside and having a buffet starting at 2 pm. They had a great pricing scheme....buy 4 mojitos and get the buffet for free. Each mojito was $12 BZ...the buffet only $30 pp so do the math!!! Anyway we met a couple from Canada staying here for a month. They're paying $500 for a 3 room place on the lagoon side....$18 a day to stay a month in paradise....such a deal! Passed a really great house for sale that we later found on the internet....$450,000 for 1 ... read more