It seems like I don't plan on staying if I continue to count the days, so I'll cease announcing my days on-island moving forward. Tuesday, we went to Road Runner Deli for lunch. It has 60+ Google reviews, all five-star. It's a little shed on the main street north of town. The owner is also the chef, working 6 AM to 10 PM seven days a week. He worked under celebrity chefs at Ceasar's Palace i ...

DAY 4: Friday Friday was a fairly unremarkable day, with the exception of some evening visitors on our patio... We were playing Monopoly after dinner and heard some commotion...opened the curtains to see two baby raccoons rubbing ALL OVER Nathan's swim shoes! Sorry for the reflection of our home in the door - this was the best I could do without scaring them off! DAY 5: Saturday We took ...

A note should you try to pack canned pet food in a checked bag - 5 of 7 of mine EXPLODED inside the luggage - chicken with gravy was everywhere. The Village Market has the same tins I pay 79 cents for from Chewy for $2.50 U.S., so these cats just got a lot more expensive. DAY 1: Journey to Secret Beach Day 1 (Tuesday) found us in town for breakfast at The FryJack House, home of inexpensiv ...

DAY 0 - Monday, August 5th, 2024 When I last left the blog, we had been picked up by my in-laws for a ride to Phoenix Sky Harbor.  If you prefer the TL:DR version, here is a video re-cap of our travel day: Traveling 13 hours and 3 flights with 3 cats to Belize Since we had cats/pets, we weren't able to check in online, we had to check in in person. That upped my anxiety as while we are alw ...

Saturday, a.k.a. DAY 2, more panic hit as we were not receiving text messages now that our numbers were ported to GoogleFi. Kind of important for us to be reachable on our last few days in the U.S.! I'm not a techie and tried following troubleshooting tips. There was a note that it may take 24-48 hrs from porting a number until a customer can send and receive texts. In hindsight, I should hav ...

Thursday evening, we headed to the Mejia's home after work. They were neighbors to my inlaws in their first apartment, their kids were - and still are - friends. We had an Italian feast and our kids (plus Lilly!) and Nathan's cousin, Joseph, came over as well. Perhaps we should have taken a family photo before the sun went down, and maybe I shouldn't have parked my keister under the misting s ...

DAY 7, part 2: Dinner with Shauna As I mentioned in my previous blog, I had a Happy Hour/Dinner date with a former sales partner/great friend, Shauna, on Tuesday. We met up at Talking Stick Resort and Casino (surprise!) and it was great to catch up, we both have a lot of changes going on in our lives. I also earned some redemption gambling - I played one machine only, got a game maybe ten sp ...

DAY 8: Monday Our last "Guest" at our villa checked out on Monday, closing out almost two years of heavy use, and likely, with a bang!  San Pedro hosted the Belize International Music Festival this weekend, and our guest (1 on the reservation) had a revolving door of visitors in and out, courtesy of our Ring cameras. We routinely have a camera triggered by a cat or the many raccoons in the ...

The days are flying by, I can't keep up! DAY 11: FridayI made a drop-off at my mom's house of an extra TV, some cat things, and cosmetics while picking up cat pheromone collars to calm them. We also set a date for our last meeting. From there, I washed our car and took it to CarMax to see what they would offer for it. It's an okay offer, not offensive, not knock-my-socks-off, and we did agr ...

Now that the "Major Events" have concluded, we're working through ticky-tack things that aren't nearly as important, but still need to be finished. For example: We have gift cards and free meals and such from loyalty programs, so we're trying to map out maximizing those. I started day 12 by cashing in a free acai bowl at Nekter; after all of the fast food and fried things my body needed som ...