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Belize - Day 6
Thursday, July 10th
This day ended up being the most relaxing, and yet we did the most activities! It's just because the four activities were all on the easy scale, versus our other activities being considered rigorous (+).
We started with birding at 6 am. This was the first day that we got to experience a great jungle rain. It lasted just long ( Read more... ) -
Belize - Day 5
Wednesday, July 9th
The Inland Tour for Wednesdays is to visit the Cockcomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and Jaguar Preserve. I know it sounds uncharacteristic for me to be adament about missing this particular adventure over any other to dive the Blue Hole, but the description boasts seeing fresh jaguar pawprints, not the jaguars themselves due to ( Read more... ) -
Belize - Day 4
Tuesday, July 8th
In our Tree House is a folder with all of the resort information in it, including descriptions and times of all the adventures available. We happen to miss one piece of paper that explains starting July 1, 2008 their usual Cave & Jungle tour through St. Herman's Cave will be upgraded free of charge to their Actun Tunichil Muknal ( Read more... ) -
Belize - Day 3
Monday, July 7th
There were two people already signed up for the Blue Hole trip on Monday, but I really really wanted to go on the waterfall hike. The Blue Hole was of course of utmost importance, but we had our hearts set on Wednesday. I had met one of the two people signed up for Monday on Sunday's excursion and asked if he wouldn't mind ( Read more... ) -
Belize - Day 2
Sunday, July 6th
We had only planned on diving one day during our whole trip - The Blue Hole. Hamanasi required at least eight divers to sign up for this upgrade before they would book it. There was no way to organize it before arriving at the resort, either. Brian and I were really hoping to get a group together last minute for Sunday since ( Read more... ) -
Long Awaited Belize Post
Day 1 - Saturday, July 5th
We flew from Phoenix to Dallas, Dallas to the outskirts of Belize City, and from Belize International Airport to Dangriga. That last leg of the trip took place in the smallest plane I've ever seen (meant for commercial flight). We’re talking thirteen people at most could squeeze into this little eight-window prop plane ( Read more... ) -
June 14th thru 21st - My Mom's Visit, '08
Although I guess the only things really worth blogging about are the 15th & 16th...
Sunday, June 15th: We drove into Tucson around 12:30 pm to meet up with my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Greg at the RV Park. Greg realized it had been 3.5 years since we'd seen eachother, basically since Christmas '04. I had actually seen Bonnie, as well as my cousin ( Read more... ) -
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday - June 10th, 11th, 13th & 14th
A little history: Someone called Firesky complaining that Yappy Hour was a trademarked term so they needed to rename their Friday the 13th event. So their legal department demanded to get involved in the entire event and found a link online stating that canine massage in the state of Arizona is only legal if performed by a licensed veterinarian. ( Read more... ) -
Friday, June 6th & the Week of June 9th
After three months of numerous extensions, following at least another three months of looking at maybe fifty houses, Brian signed the mortgage for our new 1800 sq ft house in Chandler, AZ!! It's a four bedroom/two bath, has a living room AND family room (with a fireplace), and an additional Arizona room that boosts the square footage to 2100. The ( Read more... ) -
Saturday, June 7th & Sunday, June 8th
I’M OFFICIALLY ADVANCED SCUBA CERTIFIED!!! And boat specialty certified, too, which was unexpected...but more on that later.
Brian and I had four weeks left before leaving for Belize, and we want to dive the Great Blue Hole. A little underwater geography lesson, blue holes are either submerged sinkholes or underwater caves whose ceilings have ( Read more... )