February

Month end again. Also the end of our huge string of company. Maybe now time will slow down a little. Anyway ... Just for Sharon (I want pictures, pictures, pictures) here are lots of pictures.
My sisters came to visit and we had a great time. Here we are under a ceiba tree. A really huge ceiba tree.
And in a very cool cave. Rio Frio Cave.

Because of all the company lately, we have been spending lots of time at the zoo. One of our favorite places, luckily. Here the jabaru stork was showing off a little. This stork is about 5 feet tall with a wingspan to match!

Here are a couple more fun Belizean signs.

And more ruins. These at Caracol. The largest ruins in Belize. They are amazing!

Frio on pools. A great place to swim. Lots of rapids and pools to play in. Brynn and Kori found a place that made a natural water slide.

Howler monkeys were everywhere on the grounds of the Lamanai Outpost Lodge where we stayed for a weekend with mom and dad. We could get within a foot or 18 inches of the babies. So cool!

There is a large Mennonite community in Belize. They run the gamut from totally modern to totally not. Here we went through Shipyard, a Mennonite town that was closer to the 'not' side of that spectrum.

This sugar mill was abandoned in the mid - late 1800's. Less than 200 years and this tree has grown up and is trying to take back the space. The jungle grows fast!

My Mom decided to lead my kids astray. She wanted to pick some oranges so we found an orchard (not hard - citrus is big business in Belize) and Mom and the kids 'stole' some oranges. They were very yummy.

Ernesto (bare head) and Terry (hat) found a turtle on the road and stopped to show us. After, we made sure it got to a safe place. If other locals had found it, it would have been someone's supper.

Final picture for now (more later, Sharon, I promise). Kori's artsy pic of her shadow in the water. Have a great March everyone!