Back from paradise

We just returned from an 11 day trip to Belize.  I truly love that country.  The people, the food, the scenery, the clouds, the rain, the temperature.  It is all just perfect.

I even found a door with my name on it!  Sure, it was a restroom, but it was pretty exciting.

You see a lot of things in Belize that would never fly here.  Like people riding their bikes on the airport runway, kids sitting on the handlebars of a parent's bike, pickup trucks with beds loaded up with people driving down the highway, country roadsides full of people selling all kinds of home-cooked food from underneath a little covered shack, people doing their laundry in the river,  NO FAST FOOD OR CHAIN OF ANY STORE OR RESTAURANT IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

One thing you can count on seeing at every dinner in Belize is rice and beans with stewed chicken.  It is a heavenly meal.  Except that it always comes with a side of fried plantains.  The kids called them slugs.  We were fine with the rice and beans and chicken, but nobody ever ate the slugs.

We spent most of our time on the island so the boys could get scuba certified.  I love the island, but I really love the mainland.  Next time we go we will spend more time on the mainland than the island.  But you have to see them both if you go to Belize.

Our favorite thing to do on the mainland is climb Mayan ruins.

I just got the pictures off of the cameras and it will take me a while to go through them.  There are too many, but we had a blast!