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…
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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…
HOME!
I plan to put these words in order on this page, but man am I exhausted! We woke up on Saturday morning in Tokyo (late afternoon Friday Central time, that is), gathered our things, and hopped on the metro to Ueno Station. There, we picked up the Keisei Skyliner bound for Narita airport. We enjoyed…
Tokyo: The Last Day
Aw, man. I can’t believe I’m already writing about the last day of our trip to Japan! We need to leave our apartment here near Ginza at about 7:15 tomorrow morning to head to Narita to catch out flight, so tomorrow doesn’t really count as a trip day at all. 7:15 isn’t too far away,…
Travel Day: Takayama to Tokyo
Logan’s birthday is today. YAY! He got to spend most of it on a train, which was neat, but maybe not his most exciting birthday ever? We woke up this morning in Takayama, packed, and caught the 11:32 Wide View Hida. The gel cling stickers made an appearance again – this was a dollar well…
Classy Otter 