First night/day in Belize

So here is a summary of our week.

First night - got bitten possibly 9,000 times by sand flies and teeny mosquitoes. Swam in the pool and tried to avoid the bugs. Ate a delicious dinner in our cabana, watched Cubs highlights and fell asleep by 9pm.

First day (Tuesday 7/28) -
Got up early. Went for a kayak in the lagoon and among the mangroves. Ate a hearty breakfast by the pool while getting bitten alive on our ankles. Swam in the pool. Decided to walk into Placencia (we mistakenly thought we were 4 miles from town). We started on the beach. We had a nice drizzle cooling us off. Then we moved onto the road and the rain got stronger. We stopped at a little grocery store in Seine Bight to get some sunscreen. When we got out it was a downpour. So we sat on the porch and watched it. When it let up we started walking again. Then it rained even harder. We took shelter under a house (they are built on cement or wood stilts). We kept walking for what felt like miles and finally we hitchhiked into town. We walked around Placencia checking it out. Then we went for a swim in the ocean and sat at the Barefoot Beach Bar and played cards and drank Bellikin beers and Watermelon rum drinks.

We ate at a place called Rumfish. We had shrimp ceviche and free (yeah happy hour) nachos and some beers. Then we headed home to check on the cubs - well that was after trying to catch a bus that never came. Good thing for taxis!

Getting to Belize

So Belize was pretty incredible.
We had a hell of a time trying to get there though!!!

At 3:45am on July 27th we were en route to Chicago O'Hare to catch our 6am flight to Miami. At 4am we received a phone call telling us that our flight had been CANCELLED! So we had the cab driver turn us around. We got back to Evanston and started calling American Airlines to try to get it figured out. I finally got ahold of someone and we switched our flight to go to Arkansas and then Dallas and then Belize. So we got into the car and Dave drove us to the airport. We made our flight, but then of COURSE, our flight to Dallas was cancelled. The people in Arkansas were amazing, and they rerouted us onto another airline. So now we flew to Houston, and then onto Belize City. At this point we arrive in Belize at 4:45pm and the LAST flight to Placencia was at 5pm. They told us we would not make it, but we breezed through customs and ran to the flight with 5 minutes to spare.

We arrived via teeny plane to Placencia and made it to Casa At Last (for real!) by 6pm. It was quite a trip and we were very happy to have arrived.

Honeymoon here we come!

And we're off!!

After a whirlwind two weeks, we are heading to Belize to relax relax relax.

The wedding was unbelievable and fantastic.

The second Chicago party was delicious and fun.

And now we are on our way. We are heading to Placencia, Belize to hang out on the beach, swim, suntan, snorkel, fish, and just enjoy ourself as much as possible.

We will post pictures as soon we we get back.