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I haven't had a chance to post about our vacation to Belize last December. This was a first for us and a great 7 days of relaxation and adventure. My husband and I were fortunate enough to be able to go to Belize with another couple from our church in Dec 2013. We spent about four days on the beach and three in the jungle. WOW, what a great trip! It couldn't have been any better! This was our first time for a carribean vacation and we loved it. Snorkeling was the main activity for our beach side of the trip and I was able to use my gopro camera for underwater footage....I boiled it down to this video....watch it in HD if you can! http://youtu.be/DDxxvSf8jww The water was so warm and we saw a great variety of marine life. The rental that we stayed had kayaks free for us to use and we could paddle out about 15 mins to tie up to a buoy at the reef. Belize has the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world! For those that can’t watch the video, here are some pics. within minutes of arrival at our condo we were enjoying fresh cocconut water and shortly after the national beer of Belize in a hammock on the dock out in the carribean. Nice!! During our time in the jungle we wanted to do a lot of birding and we got to see around 50-60 species of birds that we had never seen before. Cool stuff We stayed at a remote jungle lodge and they had three days of flooding while we were there! The drive into the lodge was exciting as we essentially had to drive through a couple waterfall pouring over the road. The first afternoon we were essentially stuck in the cabin listening to the rain pour down. We figure it must have rained 15-20 inches during that afternoon and night. Wow!! Unfortunately I haven't had time to make a video of the jungle portion of our trip, but I posted a few pics from there. Great time seeing Mayan ruins, caves and lots of birds.