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Dana Says
My current favourite song
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Remember the day we rented a golf cart in San Pedro to go see the Mayan Ruins ‘just out of town’? Remember how the road was so full of potholes that we nearly couldn’t hold on to said golf cart? Remember how when we saw the sign that said we had arrived we were all like ‘this is some sort of joke that they play on tourists?’ and then we walked for 20 minutes through mosquito infested swamp over an extremely dodgy, pieced together walkway to get to the ‘ruins’. There was nothing there but some information that basically said ‘imagine this like this’ and a poison wood tree who’s sap would make you sick if you touched it. That was quite an adventure 
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These were taken on my birthday. Bob and I had just had the most amazing couples massage at the end of a pier while the moon rose and we could hear the ocean beneath us. It was pretty magical. Then, we ate some street food. No, we didn’t get sick. The night shots ended here because the rum punch took hold and then I mostly felt like sleeping
Ah, Belize…so many more images to share. I’ll just keep doing it slowly, but surely…
~ Dana
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*photo credit goes to Gimme Some Oven. Mine didn’t look nearly as nice as this 
We recently made a sort of pledge. It was born out of Bob’s obsession with a new app called ‘Mint’ for his phone. It tracks all of our spending. A couple months of doing that and we realized one big thing…we are wasting a tonne of money eating out.
I used to like to cook…before I worked…but, as I got busy with my career and the kids got busy with activities, cooking went to the bottom of the priority list. We have noticed the affect on our pocketbook and our waistlines. So…we are going to try to eat in more often. I’ll share some of my new recipes here. Being a social media crazy person, I find most of my recipes on Pinterest. Some of them work well…and some, not so much. Today, we made this Chicken, Bacon, Avocado Chopped Salad from Gimme Some Oven. It was FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC…Being huge fans of both bacon and avocados helps for sure, but this is going to be a new go to favourite…give it a try Just a note that we used goat’s cheese instead of blue cheese(no one here really likes blue cheese)…it worked well. And, we added the Dijon Mustard which is listed as optional. Jack LOVED it and has decided it should be called ‘Bacon Salad’…
~ Dana
PS–I know that I haven’t shared much from Belize. I promise that there is more to come.
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This is the space where the image of Jack leaning against a palm tree with the words ‘no loitering’ written on it would be…
This is the space where I would post the image of Georgia feeding a spider monkey a pb&j sandwich…
Yup. Corrupted card. On holiday. It hardly seems fair. I have learned a valuable lesson though. First, I am getting an SD card to go in the SD slot of my 5D Mark III to act as a backup to my CF card. Just in case. Why I have never done this is beyond me…
Second…how valuable are these photographs? After all, they are really just of us on holiday…normal touristy stuff. Us at Lamanai…us at Caye Caulker…we had the discussion. Is it worth sending it to a card recovery company(after multiple failed attempts with consumer level card recovery software)? The answer is yes. I think it will cost about $500 to get them off of there(if they even can)…and the truth is, I’m going to spend what it takes to try. Made me stop and think about the importance of the images I take. Memories are good…and we’ll remember these things…and, my mom was there with her camera capturing some of it as well so it’s not like there are NO photographs of it. But, we value these images of our family time together. And, I know that in years to come…the kids will as well.
Hopefully, one day, I can post those photos for you…as well as the ones of the local boys eating the custard apples on a run down bridge before they jumped into the crocodile infested river. Crossing my fingers…
~ Dana
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Just because there hadn’t been many of Jack lately. I am loving learning how to shoot underwater with my fabulous new housing. The kids are loving snorkelling. It’s not all we’ve done here, but it is what we are mostly doing The Pugh’s have never had such a relaxing holiday….
~ Dana
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One day, I’ll totally set one of these up somewhere. This is brilliant.
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Sharing because I thought this was so awesome…personally, I am trying to remove the word ‘retarded’ from my own vocabulary because I know I have a better grasp of the English language than to resort to having to use that. I don’t really use ‘gay’ like this, but if you do…I challenge you to stretch your mental ability and use a more appropriate word. And, the message about tolerance vs. acceptance is one you can never hear enough. The first time I heard it was in university…from a gay professor(I checked the flowchart, it’s okay to use here) who was teaching a 400 level English course on the discourse surrounding HIV/AIDS. It has stuck with me…and, not just about gay people, but about EVERYONE.
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