Our one year anniversary

It’s hard to believe this week marks our one year anniversary in Belize.
Like everything else in life, it’s had its good times and bad times. I would say leaving my grandchildren was the most difficult emotional adjustment to make. I still miss them everyday. My sons are very good about keeping us all connected via FaceTime, which helps tremendously! What they are not good about is reading this blog. Lol.

Since we have moved to Belize, we have lived in 3 different homes. The first one was the sweet little 300 sq ft cabana that sits on the missionaries property. Our next move was to the “tree house” in Maya Beach. That was only available for 8 mnts. We currently live in an Amish built wood home. This home has 500 sq ft. You can see the inside of it in the pictures below. Our landlord recently but up this nice new, lockable, gate for us.





The pictures below are of the tourist village of Placencia. It’s about a 20 minute drive from our current home.  Here you see the “board walk”, which really is made of concrete and is 1 mile long. DeJa Moo is one of our favorite yogurt shops. The paths you see connect the main road to the board walk. You can see homes, rental cottages, restaurants and gift shops tucked into the paths and along the board walk.








The next picture is the house owned by a local resort. This is where some of their employee live while working at the restort. A group of women live upstairs and a group of men live on the ground level. Some of them are very kind and friendly, some, not so much. Let’s just say they like their music really loud!





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