We were in Belize this day and went on a really long excursion that started early in the morning and so I didn't have time for running. You can't bring a ship up next to the shore in Belize, I think because of the Great Barrier Reef that is there, so the ship anchored quite a ways from shore and we had to take smaller boats, called tenders, in to the shore. Then we rode on a not very well air-conditioned bus nearly all the way across Belize to within about a 1/2 mile of the Guatemalan border to some Mayan ruins called Xunantunich. We had to walk up a big hill to get to the ruins and I had to carry my 6-year-old daughter on my sun-burned shoulder. Then we climbed the biggest ruin and that was quite challenging. From the top we could see for miles. It was pretty cool. Getting down off the ruin was physically easier, but scarier, than climbing up had been. Then they took us to a restaurant where we had a traditional Belizian lunch of chicken, and rice and beans. Then it was the 2 hour bus ride back to the coast. We saw a lot of Belize on that bus ride and I have to say that on the whole it was in a considerable state of disrepair. I forgot to take my camera on this excursion (what an idiot I am), but my son had his. I'll try to get pictures from him later. When we finally got back to the ship, we got showed and had dinner and then I went to bed early. I was exhausted.
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