Woke up this morning- ate another scrumptious breakfast. They have an amazing french toast that is to DIE for here. We finished that and then decided since we would be driving a good ways today we needed to wear the kids out- so more swimming. Kids played all morning while I tried washing a load of clothes... the dryer was pretty bad. I finally laid all the clothes out on our banister to dry. We checked out right at 11- and as a good bye present to our staff Bennett had pulled 3 coconuts from the trees because he wanted to try them...see what they tasted like. So as we are leaving they opened them up and we got to try fresh coconut water. The kids said they loved it but I don't know if it was actual liking it or more saying they liked it.
We pulled out and found the countryside of Belize to be a lot prettier in the daylight. The Hopkins Bay area is...beautiful BUT once we got to the other side, the San Ignacio side we were amazed. The Hopkins people are lazy (that is even what they have said), they have a very laid back kind of life. Why work harder than you need to- so they don't. Reaching San Ignacio the countryside is different. Land is cleared, homes are in a little better condition...pretty unique.
Driving we were following "Belize instructions". And we got lost. We knew we were lost when we reached the Guatamala border...oops. We turned back around, went back through San Ignacio and still couldn't find our turns. Dustin finally went into a Shell gas station (a nice looking one) to ask for directions and she had never heard of the place we were staying (great) but knew the city of Bullet Tree. She got us there and then the directions started making sense...a little bit. We arrived and were greeted by a huge german shepard (Kiba) and a short squaty dog (Palle)- we walked up to the front opening area and this place is straight out of Swiss Family Robinson. Its crazy. We checked in with Theo (Ta-yo), who then informed us that dinner wasn't until 7pm (it was 3). We dropped our gear, Dustin is sleeping with Bennett and Rowe and I am sleeping with Miles and Halle in our treehouse, non-ac, cabin.
We hoped back in the car and drove to Cahal Pech Ruins right in San Ignacio. On the way we ran into some Elders...one was from Utah the other from Honduras. We got to Cahal Pech and went to explore. This place is pretty big and like a huge playground for the kids. All of them were fearless until Rowe spotted a snack slithering through some of the bricks- he then became my instant sidekick. These ruins were pretty amazing- and the fact that they let people climb all over them.
After that it was still only 5:45 so we opted to stop for some dairy free icecream (recommendation from our hostess here) and it was good! The boys tried the Craboo Icecream (a fruit found here) while the rest of us ventured for the banana/chocolate, rootbeer float, and Carmel shake. It was all delicious! (Especially because we have been craving sweets forever). We pulled back into the Parrot Nest to find dinner family style, and SO GOOD. The best homemade food we've had all week WITH lots of veggies!! They even through avocado in everything because they have a tree growing right off the eating area. We sat with another couple who has two kids and they decided to travel the world for a year. This is their 9th country... they have been gone from Australia since January. They hope to make it back by Christmas to put their two boys back in school. Sounded a little nutsy.
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