BELIZE!

When Todd and I got married I had an emotional breakdown. Up until our wedding day I was SO excited to be married. I seriously couldn’t wait. I thought I would marry him and never look back. After our wedding reception, we swung by my parent’s house to pick up the last of my things. And then it hit me…

I would never walk into this house again. My parents were set to move while we were on our honeymoon. I was so caught up in the wedding, I didn’t even realize how hard it would be to actually leave everything behind. So I cried. I cried and cried and cried. It wasn’t really what I expected for my wedding night. Fast forward ten years to Friday night when I had to say goodbye to my kiddos. It was so hard! I seriously thought it would be my wedding night all over again. I pulled it together to get through a dark, rainy, road construction filled night to get to Salt Lake. We got to our hotel a whopping 5 hours before we had to be at the airport!

My emotions were much more level by Saturday morning, and I was pretty pumped to get to Belize. I seriously wanted to dance all day. One big problem though is there was no music in the airport. But once we landed in Belize there was LIVE MUSIC, and the air was full of excitement and adventure. The excitement dulled as we found ourselves sweating our faces off in long lines for immigration. There are 2 huge problems with the airport in Belize, the first being the lack of AC. Not cool. The second is no one tells you what you need to do, so you walk around feeling like an idiot. We finally made our way out to our commuter flight to the island we are staying on. The man in charge told Todd to get in the plane and for me to wait at the side of the line. No explaination, nothing! I finally figured out that they were distributing the weight. Sure would have been nice to have a small clue what was going on.

So 14 of us loaded into a small plane and headed to Ambergris Caye. Here are some of the beautiful views we saw along the way….

Ummm.... In Belize, this qualifies as an Airport!

After cleaning up a bit, the first thing on our agenda was DINNER! Huge coconut shrimp seemed like the perfect meal to welcome us to paradise. So yummy, I forgot to take a picture. Then we headed to our villa when I was distracted by the beautiful night sky. I parked myself in the hammock on our porch and looked at stars. It was so relaxing and wonderful. The Milky Way was in full view, and I am pretty sure how I will be spending a lot of my time at night!