And we ate on my grandmother's antique china - also very nice.
I finished this sweater just in time, which is a cool pattern where you knit whatever gauge you do and then find the appropriate directions, complete with various sleeves and borders. Little bit see-through.
And then it was off to Belize! This was our 2nd trip, but the first time we took Lucas for Spring Break and stayed on the mainland. This time we jumped on another tiny plane and headed to Ambergris Cay and the city of San Pedro - Madonna sang about it in La Isla Bonita.
This is my view from the balcony, and that's the sock I brought to work on. I should mention at this point that when flying within Belize, you may not have knitting needles or tiny scissors of any sort, and so my precious scissors gifted me by Becky were confiscated because I was doing Alabama Chanin sewing on the plane but the knitting was in checked baggage. (Moment of silence please for the sharpest scissors I ever had.)
Belize is the easiest Central American country in which to vacation (in my humble opinion) because it is 2.5 hours from Houston, the official language is English, it's on Central Standard Time, and they use the American dollar, plus the Belizean dollar is twice the American - no complicated arithmetic! This was new construction being held up by trees, apparently, until more rebar presents itself. Interesting.
Pause for beauty:
Haha - that's the dessert the resort (Victoria House - fabulous) sent to our room after dinner - total surprise!
And this isn't beautiful, but there aren't many cars on San Pedro because it's so tiny, so everybody drives a golf cart - precious!
This was some wildlife that ventured into the open-air restaurant.
This is a Cuban and fish tacos from the coolest joint in North San Pedro called Truckstop. It's a bunch of container trucks that all serve different kinds of food and have live entertainment. We took the boys back there for this Thanksgiving - more on that later - and they had a Family Feud game with families from the audience that was hilarious.
This is behind the containers where they have a huge space with Cornhole games, ping-pong, giant Jenga, and they put up a movie screen behind this pool for movie nights...that you can watch from the pool - what?!
Dean knew about "Chicken Drop" which is on select nights at a local bar, and for $1 you can pick a number and if the chicken poops on it, you win $100. Very touristy.
We did take a fishing trip and I caught a bonefish, which you don't eat, apparently, because it's full of bones, but it's sure pretty to look at before you throw it back. And if you wonder why I'm so buttoned up, this was a half-day fishing trip with no roof or shade whatsoever - I was NOT going to burn in Belize!
And this was in the iconic bar at the airport heading back home where the owner is a little old short guy (think the Oompa Loompa from Johnny Depp's version, and I mean absolutely no disrespect, but he's quite something) who's kind of hard to understand but does all kinds of tricks like yanking your napkin out from under your drink, etc. He's not in the picture but Dean couldn't resist the mooner next to me. We were figuring out how to AirDrop pics to each other on our phones when a chick in the bar yells out, "I got your pictures, Dean!" Good times...
