Belize 2019 music video

This week has been especially cold here in Arizona. Our regular weekly park playdate was moved indoors because us Arizonans don't know what to do when the temperature drops below 55 degrees. However, because of that we discovered library story time which may end up being a great thing for me and Brinn and to go to together.

But the colder weather also made me dream of going back to Belize. And then I realized I don't think I ever posted our Belize trip music video. Such a fun trip with awesome people (who are willing to dance in different countries with us)!

My favorite part of this whole video is the end--dancing with the sweet Mayan man in the airport (Angie! haha) and our jump on top of the Mayan ruin in Guatemala.

last days in Belize

How sad to have to wrap up our trip to a place as pretty as this:

On our last full day in Belize, Eric and the other two couples we were with left me at the resort and went out on a full day of scuba diving. Don't worry, I did not feel left out one bit. I was quite happy--actually, I was beyond thrilled, to have a whole day to myself to walk along the water, read, and write. A perfect day in my opinion!

I walked 12 miles that day, though it was split up into three different walks. I saw this iguana on one of my walks.



But mostly just enjoyed the sunshine and the ocean views. And only felt uncomfortable once walking alone by two locals who catcalled to me. ugh. 


So while I went on my walks, finished my book, and did some writing, these guys were exploring the ocean deep.











When they got back, Eric and I went exploring on our own. And climbed some coconut trees.

















Back to our resort before we went out to dinner...







We grabbed dinner at Elvi's Kitchen. It was a cool little place with a sand floor.





On our last morning in Belize, Eric and I grabbed bikes from the resort to bike around the island. We stopped at The Baker for cinnamon rolls and cherry tarts and sausage filled pastries.



We ate our breakfast by the water.



And then got a second breakfast back at our resort.





After biking to the bridge, we decided to go rent paddle boards.



I loved being out on the water.







I was the one scared to stand up at first, but it was Eric who fell off as we were going back to the dock. Haha.



I got the hang of it after just a few minutes.







We saw stingray and some big unknown to me fish. So cool!









We all met up for lunch and said our goodbyes to Belize by eating treats from the chocoalte store and the ice cream shop.



Eric did his last dance, a solemn one, on the sand of San Pedro.



We climbed into our little plane and flew back to the mainland.







Such beautiful views from the air. I was glad we took the water ferry over and the airplane back so we got the experience of both breathtaking views.









I know you can't see from the pictures, but we saw manatee's swimming down in the water.





Our trip was "unBELIZEable!"



I'm working on our trip music video and I hope to post it soon!

San Pedro

We left San Ignacio and traveled by water ferry to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye.

It was a two hour bumpy, beautiful boat ride.



After getting settled into our resort, we went straight over to the dive boats for a visit to Hol Chan Marine Reserve and Shark Ray Alley.











I snorkeled at the reserve while everyone else went scuba diving. But I think we had very similar experiences. (Minus the fact that I was having a bit of a panic attack in a mask. I wouldn't have been able to do it without the full face mask, but even with that I was far from comfortable and had to tell myself to calm down and relax a hundred times. It's not the swimming or anything, it is the having something over my nose/mouth/face.) We saw a sea turtle, baracuda, puffer fish, octopus, eel, nurse shark, sting ray, sea urchin, a bunch of other fish, etc. It was amazing! I am glad I faced my fears and did it. Though I would never want to do it every day.





After 45 min in the water, the boat took us to Shark Ray Alley. We swam with the feeding sharks!





Yep, we all got in the water with these nurse sharks. Crazy cool.





A good day on the ocean for sure.





That night after dinner and a walk along the oceanside we sat on the dock under the moon.



And took pictures like this.









Breakfast in the morning wasn't too bad.



This was the view from our room.



Then we went to the local branch for church.





In the afternoon, we rented a golf cart to explore the island a little bit.



We found the best food stop on the island--Truck Stop.







This is where I dominated Eric at connect four. Let's not talk about what happened or who won during our game of foosball though ... 







With a photo bomber.



Without a photo bomber.



So we heard about this place called Secret Beach and decided to go check it out.




 It was a fun golf cart drive out there.





But it was a big let down place that give me a bad feeling. Just some bars and drunken people. It reminded me of Pleasure Island in Pinocchio. And we quickly got out of there.





Kind of a waste of an afternoon, but I told myself it was fun to drive the golf cart around.

We went to Iguana Juan's for dinner.



Angie and I were working on a video clip for our music video that involved Ellsworth eyes and the candles. You will have to wait for me to finish the music video to see...not sure if it's truly worth the wait. Haha. But we had fun nonetheless.



What we concluded about San Pedro after 24 hours there--the food was more expensive than we thought it would be, definitely go to the Truck Stop, sooo many golf carts makes for some busy exciting streets, a resort room with a view was amazing, the snorkeling/diving is SO good, the mosquitoes are relentless, and the weather was perfect.