Friday

Today we said goodbye to the clouds and rain and had the most perfect, breezy, warm Belizean day.

The view from the balcony on a perfect day

Needless to say, we hit the pool early. Finn was having a tough day — huge meltdown over putting on his swim shirt and then another one when it was nap time. But we survived.

While Finn napped, Ezra and Erin took a walk up to the grocery store to replenish the ice cream supply. Later, Erin led a group drawing project.

Finn colors

Ezra relaxed in the hammock.

Ezra relaxes

Then we couldn’t stand it any longer and we all went to the pool again. This time Finn won the battle of the swim shirt.

Finn happy without his swim shirt

More swimming.

Ezra in the pool

And serious digging.

Important work to do

Then we got cleaned up to walk up the beach to Rojo Lounge for dinner and hermit crab migration sightings.

Finn really liked walking in the water.

Walking up the beach

Ezra wanted to collect trash.

Ezra collects trash

(The trash is a major bummer. Everything from plastic bags to wine bottles to oil cans washes ashore.)

When we got to Rojo, Finn was taken with the little pool.

The little pool at Rojo

Both boys loved the little umbrellas in the drinks.

Ezra loved his umbrella

The food and drinks were delicious. I had a frozen mojito and Jamma had a Hawaii 5-0.

Mommy and Jamma's happy place

We also got a pizza with lobster, shrimp and bacon. Yum.

Lobster, shrimp & bacon pizza

Finally at about 7:45 we were ready to leave and luckily the hermit crabs had started to arrive. We didn’t see huge amounts (apparently they come much later in the night), but we did have to watch our step on the beach! Here are a few of them congregating on a palm tree.

Hermit crabs

We also saw this land crab.

Land crab

Awesome day and night!