Pictures

This is a rather large tree that fell and blocked the entire road. Amazingly it was cleaned up with one of the two chainsaws in our area by the end of the day.

This is one of the stores on the main road, it is a printing and office supplies store. They lost their signs and parts of their zinc roofing.

These are the banana trees directly behind our house, many fell and the rest were so damaged they all needed to be chopped down. There is a lot less shade back their now. As you can see we also couldn't get out the back door because they were blocking it. The tarps on the right were the roof to a little storage shed for John that doesn't really exist anymore.

This is the top half of a rather tall Chinese Pear tree that snapped in half and missed our house by inches. Or bounced off our house but didn't do much damage, there's no way of knowing. This is after some of it was already cleaned up.

This is supposed to be a road but now it just looks like more jungle.

This is our neighbor's house straight across the road. A big tree fell on the left of their house and covered half of the roof. The roof had minimal damage but it did break a window when it fell and rain came in on the family, they said the were pretty scared.

This is our other neighbor's pig. His whole pen was broken but he stayed put and seemed unphased by the whole thing. There were several big trees growing straight up out of his pen but they all fell, and amazingly none of them landed on the pig.

This is our neighbor's house  a little way down the road. This is why most of the houses is Belize are made of concrete.

This is a tree in the park next to our house. This is a picture of its roots completely pulled out of the ground, my guess is this tree was 30-40 ft. tall. Pretty unbelievable it fell in a park nowhere near any houses! This tree is still being cleaned up a little at a time.

This is before the hurricane and a much more enjoyable event. We went on a vacation and traveled from Belmopan, to Dangriga, to Hopkins, to Independence, to Placencia and back home from Friday to Sunday.

Each of these towns are beach towns so we got to enjoy the nicest beaches in Belize, visit lots of PCV's, soak up the rays, and explore new places.

Stray dog having some fun with a coconut.

I love the colors in this country this is a billboard I really liked and below is an exceptionally colorful restaurant.

Aren't we cute?

Yes that is a very large mango margarita, I didn't realize until after I ordered it that is was $14.75, wowza but I truly got my money's worth I don't think I was walking quite straight for a few hours after that.

On the water taxi from Placencia to Independence on our return journey.

Fun fact we only had to pay for half the public transportation for this trip because we got a ride to Dangriga for a conference Cisco was speaking at, then we hitchhiked half the journey. Seeing new parts of Belize at dusk in the back of a pickup truck for free is really the best way to travel. Also, our accomodations included a night at Allyson and Clifton's house, and a night at KC Mcauliff's house, all fellow PCV's. Networking throughout an entire country makes travelling much cheaper and more enjoyable.