You Better Belize It!

Time to head home – We had a quick breakfast and caught the bus and the plane to the big plane 🙂 A bunch of us grabbed dinner in Dallas and then we all headed to our homes.

We got home super late Monday night.

We had some chill time and watched church. We played in the water and ate and shopped.

Later in the day… We enjoyed our last night of drinks, dinner and games.

All in all – we had a great vacation. It was a great combo of chill and GO. Lots of time to chat with all the brothers and sisters. New memories made and friendships strengthened. Mom was so happy to have us all there. Renae is the only one we were missing so we will have to do it again.

First we went Tubing thru the cave!

And then the Blue Hole

LUNCH

And then we got to go ziplining!

Then back to our resort…

A New Day

We spent a lazy day at the resort. Paddle boards and swimming. relaxing and chatting and gaming and eating and drinking.

And FAMILY PICTURES

The WHOLE CREW!

Here we are in age order 🙂

And then it was time to eat again… and take over karaoke night.

We took a boat ride out to a private island! Once we got there we split into three groups – a lot of the guys went spear fishing, Another boat went fishing and we went on the fishing/snorkeling boat.

The snorkeling ended up being pretty wimpy but we did see some crabs and conche and fish. Then they taught us how to fish with just fishing line!

Then back at the island the tour guides cooked up all of the fish that we caught!!

We did some snorkeling on the way back to the resort and that was our day. It was pretty Great!

We got back with a little time to swim and then eat dinner.

Dinner Time

Wednesday october 11th we left for my moms 70th Birthday trip. We left the kids home with Benji in charge again! Benji worked all week so I think the other kids did the work. They are amazing kids! So all 12 of moms kids and their spouses at an all inclusive in Belize! Salt Lake to Dallas 5:19am. Then Dallas to Belize City 10:09am.

We didn’t even go to sleep tuesday night. We packed and said goodbye and left for the airport around 2am. We picked up Sean and Jana and were off. In Dallas we met up with the California crew.

Once we got to Belize City we took a small airplane to Dangriga and then an hour in a van to Hopkins – Belizean Dreams Resort. They rolled out the red carpet for mom and then had to remake all of our welcome drinks when we told them that none of us drink alcohol.

We got settled in our rooms/houses and headed for the beach, pool, bar! We stayed in the same house as Kevin and Liz! Once we got to the bar someone ordered a “chunky monkey” and I was hooked the rest of the trip – a chocolate banana shake!

The pool water and the ocean were literally 95 degrees. The entire resort holds maybe 100 people but we were the main group. There were a few other couples there. It was small but nice and dinner was a menu instead of a buffet. It was pretty awesome.