First, gorgeous sunrise picture. The sun comes up early here – 5:15 AM or so. Much too early for my taste. I’ve seen banana plants growing in all sorts of places, but today was the first time we toured a banana plantation. After seeing all the work that goes into producing a bunch of bananas…
Beach Day the Sixth
In which Ami got to meet brand new baby puppies. They were ONE DAY OLD and my child was so sweet with them! Logan got to check out some of the local art, too. Thankfully he remembered that we are completely out of walls in our home before he purchased anything. The six of us…
Belize: Day 5 Redux
Logan informs me that my numbering system somehow went entirely off the rails and Day Four disappeared into the ether. To him I say, well, maybe I’m just switching my numbering from Julian to Gregorian, you don’t know me, or maybe this is Day 5a, or anyway I meant to do that just to see…
Belize, Day 5: Monkey River and the Rainforest
You might think it would be difficult to get a baby to nap on a speedboat, but Logan is a pro. The one tour I really wanted to do while we were in this part of Belize was a tour of Monkey River. We were lucky enough to book with Percy of Barebones Tours. Percy…
Belize, Day 3: Eatings!
We started the day in a relaxing way, downing a platter of tropical fruits. This may have been less relaxing for Logan and Beth, who prepped the whole thing. Clockwise from upper left: passionfruit, soursop, and custard apple. Ami got out of the pool for three whole minutes to eat some pineapple. The baby’s favorite…
Belize, Day Two: Beach Babies
Day Two: Relax! And drive. It turns out our Maya Beach house is about 25 minutes up the road from the nearest town of any size, Placencia. Somehow, Logan made three round trips into Placencia on Sunday, to shop for food, pick up lunch, and then pick up dinner. You have to drive through the…
Belize! Oh what a travel day it was.
Day One: We present ourselves at the airport at 5:40 for our 6:25 flight, only to learn that Southwest will not accept our luggage for travel because we’re checking in less than an hour before departure. Cue rush to the car rental facility, where we rented a car and drove to Houston. We arrived in…
Las Vegas!
Sin City feels a lot less sinful with a toddler. I’m not sure what to say about Vegas. It was completely overstimulating for all of us, especially coming from Zion. The national rodeo finals were in town, so there were lots of gentlemen in very large cowboy hats accompanying ladies who wore jeans with festively…
Zion to Las Vegas
Talk about a shock to the system! After several days in national parks in a very sparsely populated part of the country, I almost had a full-blown panic attack on arrival in Vegas. Lights! Colors! People people people! They can still smoke inside here (really!)! Phew. First things first. We woke up at the Zion…
Arches to Zion
Yup, we ran the entire alphabet today! Morning came, chilly and cold, and brought with it a seriously unhappy toddler. Getting packed and ready to go this morning was tough with a kid who wouldn’t be put down, wouldn’t be distracted, and wouldn’t be appeased. Thankfully, some bacon and toast with purple jam (some blackberry,…
Classy Otter 