We woke up today with the joy and knowledge that we would be leaving Parrots Nest. Don't get me wrong- highly recommend staying here if you want a true jungle experience...and the food has been AMAZING (homemade goes a long way) but we are ready for some AC and a nice shower.
*Shower note... not sure if I ever shared about our showering here. The shower in our cabin (myself, Halle, and Miles) first off smelled like medal. Not sure if that is from the container it sits in...if it has lead in it...but it isn't pleasant. Then you have the temperature- it is either ice cold, or scalding hot- so you turn it on, feel it and wait...then turn on the warm, and as it starts warming up you hurry and wash as fast as you can until it gets too hot to shower in...then start all over again. It took me about 30-45 minutes to shower-and I wasn't even feeling that clean. But it was quite the jungle experience.
Anyway- back to our travel day. We packed up and said goodbye to Marcus and Theo loaded up the car and began the drive back to Belize City. It took about 2 hours to get up to Belize city, we even got some great video of what the kids were doing in the car to keep themselves occupied (songs, games- the boys even made up a video game that they were the characters of while we drove). When we got to Belize City Dustin dropped the kids and I off at Ocean Ferry...Belize City is quite the unique city. We had decided that it would be safest if Dustin dropped us off at the Ferry while he returned the rental car, because if he ended up having to walk to the Ferry I figured we would seriously stick out like a sore thumb with 4 blond headed kiddos. He dropped us off, I had cash strapped to my travel fanny pack inside my pants (pretty cool foreign travel thing) along with passports- and my brood. We got inside the ferry station and felt safe waiting there- I made the kids some sandwiches and we ate some lunch while waiting on Dustin. It took Dustin about 45 minutes to get the car returned and to get back to us. We sat and waited for our Ferry to take off, it left Belize City at 1:30. We finally loaded up like sardines inside the ship and started heading out to sea. We rode for about an hour before we stopped at the first island Chapel Caye which is a golf resort island only. It has one hotel, and is only for people that are staying there. After that it took about 15 minutes to get to Caye Caulker another island- where some more people got off. Finally we got to Ambergrise Caye- we got off the boat and grabbed our bags- the first taxi guy offered to take me wherever I needed to go and then saw the size of our family and found a different person to take. Ha. We got our taxi and he took us to our next resort- the Xanadu Resort.
Checking in they were very friendly and we were just excited to see what the beds/shower were like. They accidentally double booked for one night so they apologized profusely- and put us in a two story condo with plenty of beds for our family. It is nice, it has AC and showers...we are happy.
We let the kiddos swim for a bit just because we needed to wear them out- then we walked down to Robins. It is a local joint that specializes in Jerk Chicken- he cooks it right there on a charcoal grill- and it was phenomenal!
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