Yesterday the Grandma of the girls I nanny came over to spend the day with us, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to carry out an art project I had in mind for the girls. With a…
After 8 years of faithful service, we decided it was time to retire Curly’s Green Machine. The decision was made a little easier due to a couple of things, first and foremost being that the family I nanny for offered…
I’ve been putting off this blog post for three weeks now, but Father’s Day seems like a fitting day for it. Bee’s father passed away on May 24th, after undergoing several intense surgeries that lasted much longer than planned. He…
Friday (April 8th) was our last day in Belize. I have to admit that we weren’t sad to go home. We’d had a great time on our trip; saw a lot of extraordinary things, met nice people, ate good food,…
We had one full day left (April 7th) to bum around Belize, but we had done everything within easy access and we were about out of cash. We had no desire to pull money out of an ATM, so we…
There was one more nearby Maya ruin that we wanted to see, so on Wednesday (April 6th) we braved the bus again and headed to Xunantunich (pronounced shoo-nahn-too-neech). As is common with ancient Maya cities, it is situated high on…
We decided to take a break from the scary vehicles and driving and hoof it to Cahal Pech on Tuesday (April 5th). It’s the oldest known Maya site in the Belize River valley, and sits high on a hill about…
On Monday (April 4th)we went to Actun Tunichil Muknal (known as ATM), which is a 3-mile-long cave in the northern foothills of the Maya Mountains, and it is filled with ancient Maya artifacts and human remains. We were told it…
I’m sorry for enormous size of this post. We had a very busy day! As we were planning this trip, one of the things that we were most excited about was visiting Tikal, which is an ancient Maya city in…
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