Day 2 in Belize

Day 2.
We woke up early, and went down to the lodge for breakfast. Right after breakfast we were escorted to some fancy busses.

(They looked like the old mash bus)
We got on the bus and were headed to a cave. A real. Live. Cave. Bats, spiders, and fish included. We were going CAVE TUBING!

(Cave Entrance)


I stepped in the river (no, it wasn’t warm) and sat in my tube. And there I went….tubing in a cave for a long time! We got out and hiked up the cave at one point. Saw some cool ancient stuff that had been there for years.

Then we hiked back down and got back in our tubes. We tubed to the very end of the cave. When we got there, our guides had big white sheets and they set lunch up.

Keep in mind the only light that we had were the head lamps we were all wearing. We ate lunch on our cloth, explored some little cave holes, one had a fertility God in it, that you were supposed to burn incense to (I didn’t stick around there long)

(The fertility God incense burner thing is behind us…you can’t really see it because we have our head lights on.)

in another cave hole we found some clay. Real clay. We played with that for a while, then got back in our tube to start our journey back…
Somehow I was one of the first back to the ending spot, so we went cliff jumping. Really it wasn’t that high, but it still felt cool. Felt even cooler when my body hit the bottom of the river. I decided once was good enough for me.

Day 1 in Belize

Alright, alright. I know, I’m a bad blogger. I’m sorry. I have no excuses, or reasons….just simply that I’m LAZY!!! And that is all.
SO without any further ado…..let’s catch up friends!
First.
Belize. This trip was UH MAZING!!!!!!!!! We spent the first week in the jungle. Yes. Kari stayed in a jungle. With bugs, and monkeys, and who knows what else. No electricity, or phone service, or internet, for a whole 6 days!!! And yes, I survived.
Day 1.
We arrived at Caves Branch, after a long flight and what seemed like an even longer drive (through Belize where there are NO traffic laws. The man driving our big ole’ van said that stop signs are for people with good eyes, and speed limits, well they are just a suggestion…that was COMFORTING) We got there later than we expected. I can’t remember if it was because of a delayed flight, or if we were just slow. Either way, it was late, and all 20 somethin of us, we were tired. They had food ready for us, so we ate and then they took us to our TREE HOUSES. Yes, we stayed in a house in the trees. In fact, I wouldn’t even call it a house. It had a door, but I think it was just for decoration because there was really no roof where the door was, and once you went through the door, it was all screens. No actual walls. SO as I laid in bed, I listened to howler monkeys and who knows what else that was out in the deep dark forest…that I was in the middle of.

(Me standing in front of our tree house)