Archive for December, 2011
Be Romantically Adventurous
Posted on December 24, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Belize Wedding, Travel, Useful Information
You may have read my post on facebook the other day asking you to please cast your vote on Unbelizeable Weddings-and Honeymoons 2012 Belize Weddings facebook page and help one happy couple win a special place at the Maya Marriage of Many. The lucky pair, along with 35 other couples and 218 of their closest [...]
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AWOL
Posted on December 20, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather
People watching by Central park with Dick, we are waiting on Gigi and Zac who are down the road shopping. Thanks to Cafe Cubano, I am starting this post on my android and can finish it later when I get back to my desk. They all joined up to do a group errand run and [...]
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Holy Cross Anglican School Decmber Newsletter
Posted on December 20, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
Holy Cross Anglican School Newsletter December In This Issue Santa at Holy Cross, Fundraising Success, Boat Parade, Presents for All, Santa with Children. What an expression of joy there was on each child’s face when golf carts driven by Santa and his merry elves pulled up. Every child received a package, individually named and wrapped [...]
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Wish you were here backgammon breakfast
Posted on December 18, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Videos
24 confirmed and 15 maybe for today’s Wish you were Here Backgammon breakfast at Estel’s. My brother Rob said on the invite said he’ll be there in spirit! Come on double sixes! and Robyn commented on tacogirl facebook page and mentioned she will be tuning in on taco cam from Missouri and eating a piece [...]
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From bleak to Bountiful a Belize Christmas miracle
Posted on December 17, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
Chatting with Heather on the coconut phone this morning and I got her to send me Tim Tam’s update so I could share it with all of you. [See below] Thanks to all my blog readers who answered my call for help and everyone else who came forward and helped the Word at Work make the [...]
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1st Annual Grand Champion Cook-off
Posted on December 16, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
Saga Humane Society Presents 1st Annual Grand Champion Cook-off Tonight December 16, 2011, from 6:00 — 11:00 p.m. at Central Park Also presenting Costa Maya Miss Belize launching Saga’s 2012 Calendars & Photo’s with Santa Come out for a fun-filled, family night and support Saga Humane Society by attending their first Annual Holiday Fundraiser at [...]
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Sol Farms Organic Produce
Posted on December 15, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, Useful Information
So happy we are back on track, 5 of us just got a shipment of organic vegetables from Sol Farms yesterday evening – Thanks Greg and all who helped to put the veggies on our tables. I need them now more than ever, the cold I had kicked [except for low energy part] came back [...]
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Jump on the bandwagon
Posted on December 14, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
I am asking anyone who is able to please Jump on the bandwagon and help a great cause. Just under 1 week to go to help the Word at Work Ministry volunteers be able to share Christmas with many places and people in Belize that do not have a lot and very much need all [...]
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Urgent call for help
Posted on December 13, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
Woke up to some heartbreaking news from Gigi in fb news this morning. The Word at Work annual Christmas container full of donations was ransacked. Every year the Word at Work mission group buys a new pair of shoes for all the children in the orphanages that they serve. This year they wanted to do [...]
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Liberty Children’s Home funrdaiser Live streams
Posted on December 11, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
What a great party I got some good live footage and decided to add all the video streams in one post and keep the pictures in this mornings post. Cindy estimates they made over 15,000 and sold close to 700 barbecue chicken, will know tomorrow for sure. Huge thanks to everyone who helped knock this [...]
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Liberty Children’s Home funrdaiser
Posted on December 11, 2011 in Volunteer Belize
I was up early working on my weighting down my hula hoops, I am sure they will get plenty of use today. Somehow my blue electrical tape has disappeared into a blue hole, and it is stopping me from finishing the last 2 hoops. I saw it on the table while I was working on [...]
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Flash Mob for Christy
Posted on December 10, 2011 in 1,620 + posts
Organizing a simple flash mob is a lot harder than it looks. In theory we had it ll planned out we were on time and everything was going according to plan. Gigi and I saw Jarris on the way to Tropic Air so we told him to hop on the cart and join the fun. [...]
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Tech Talk and Surfing in Belize
Posted on December 9, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize, San Pedro Belize weather, Water fun
Early morning Ambergris Caye Weather report comes from Dick via coconut phone. As we made plans to walk to town he said it was ‘cooler than yesterday.’ I can hear the wind howling now and looks like we will get rain sometime today. Before leaving on our errand run, I got g-chatting Mary about live [...]
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Long walk on a rainy day
Posted on December 8, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Living in Belize
Dick and I clocked a lot of miles today between walking to town and back, then down to the beach. For the first part of our walk we decided to take roads we do not travel as often as a result I got some great pictures for tonight’s post and lots of stock for a [...]
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Liberty Children’s Home
Posted on December 8, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Volunteer Belize
Pedro’s Inn and Hotel is holding a huge fundraiser on Sunday December 11 for the Liberty Orphanage which is situated in Ladyville. Some of the 24 children situated in this orphanage have very strong ties to our local community. Follow the link too see pictures of the last Liberty Children’s Home fundraiser Pedro’s. Over the [...]
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Pineapple on my Pizza.
Posted on December 6, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Fiesta, Useful Information
[Tonight's stream has funny audio, video froze off and on due to connection - life in Belize.] I knew it would be a busy day so I decided to prepare with a Belize breakfast of champions – 2 iced coffees, leftover Pedro’s pizza that Paul brought home last night and some ruffles potato chips is [...]
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Belize Poker Trivia
Posted on December 6, 2011 in 1,620 + posts, Useful Information, Videos
Flash back to yesterday 1:00am – Unfortunately tech troubles sending out Sunday Brunch facebook invite for Estel’s is causing a major slowdown and thoughts of being horizontal are slowly winning. I had to do a date change on Wish you were here – breakfast and backgammon facebook invite for Estel’s and our internet went down [...]
