Arrival

After landing in Belize City, we cleared Immigration and Customs with shockingly little hassle, and booked ourselves on a Tropic Air flight to San Pedro with no reservation. Amy and I kept looking at each other in disbelief that things were going so smoothly.

While we waited for our flight to depart, it poured rain. Not the stout cold rain we Seattlites are used to, but an overwhelming, steaming deluge of water that completely consumes the landscape. It was like a 'gray out,' we could not see the buildings on the other side of the runway. My immediate thought was "well, this should be a really interesting flight."

Now that's a rain storm

The rain let up just before our flight, and we walked across the tarmac to the waiting single-engine prop plane. I explained to the boys that small planes are more susceptible to turbulence and they would likely feel it a lot more. This turned out to be true, but the boys thought it was extremely exciting.

Boarding the plane, old school

En route!

We stopped at Caye Caulker to drop off a passenger, this is the 'terminal'

It cleared up considerably after we left Caye Caulker

Ambergris Caye!

The lake behind our house. Yes, it is full of crocodiles.

This little fella chirped intermittently throughout the night. I hope he stayed busy eating mosquitoes.

Our property manager had emailed us the day before telling us to call George the taxi man for a ride to our new house, and Naomi, her assistant, to meet us there to let us in. George showed up within 15 minutes, gave us a quick tour of town, then dropped us in front of our house where Namoi was waiting. She let us into the house, explained a few things, and then we were on our own. We made it! The boys were off like a shot, exploring the yard, and found land crabs, geckos, iguanas, frogs, and a bit later, lots of bats flying over the lake. They were, to put it mildly, pretty excited.