Bella Joins the Ladies Luncheon

Wayo's Beachside Beernet

Right next door to Seven Seas Resort is Wayo's Beachside Beernet. (Cold beer plus the Internet: a winning combination.) It's right on Beach Road south of Boca del Rio where bicycles, golf carts, and taxis drive on the sand. (You can also drive on the sand at Daytona Beach, Florida, but that is the only similarity.) And what better place for the First-Tuesday-of-Every-Month ladies get-together?

Always ready to eat!

About 20 of us gals met for the monthly potluck luncheon to visit, talk, and mostly to get to know one another. We sat at the two picnic tables right on the beach with the overflow sitting on the sea wall. Wayo's provided the beverages, but there's nothing better than the food the ladies brought themselves. (When men have get-togethers, they bring a two-litre bottle of Coke and potato chips!)  We feasted on chicken wings, meatballs, pulled pork on toast triangles with dill pickle, chicken fingers, fish cakes with lime, pasta salad with olives, guacamole, artichoke poppers, and deviled eggs. There were also a few desserts, but, honestly, even I was too full to try them!

We had a good time visiting with Gwen from Maryland, LaDonna from Crested Butte, Colorado, Cherie with ACES Crocodile Refuge (here on the island), and Emma, a seamstress from Wyandotte County, Kansas. (Emma went to the same high school that Shelley's father went to 80 years ago!) Later this week Emma is coming to our house to take measurements for the front porch cushions. The porch furniture is being repainted, and the master bedroom has just been repainted, all in preparation for Kim and Jim who are coming to visit next week. We hope you guys like it at our house!

A big shout-out and howdy to Pam and Michael who have just arrived on Ambergris Caye for seven months and are learning how to chill out! We can't give too many details, but Homeland Security is now obviously understaffed.

This just in from the Hey-I-Feel-Safer-Now Department:
In their continuing efforts to protect the Belizean government's monopoly on phone services, the national phone system mistakenly added DNS, the international "Domain Naming Service" to their list of blocked services which also includes Skype, MagicJack, and other "voice over Internet protocol domains". The result was, every single domain on the Internet was blocked for several hours this past Monday! Oops. Take that, you guys who should still be using dial-up connections! 

Sunset on the Lagoon

Y'all come visit. We'll eat pulled pork and artichoke poppers and maybe try to get on the Internet. You're gonna love Belize!