Tropic Air San Pedro - Island Style

It was all glitz and glamour last night at the Grand Opening of the Tropic Air terminal here in San Pedro. The new facility is awesome, and the party was like a "Who's Who" of Belize.

Holiday Hotel provided the bar service, which, I might add was par excellance, and the wonderful food was done by none other than Amy Knox of Wild Mango's. Amy is an award winning chef, and last night's fare leaves no doubt as to why.

Guests were screened at the door, and a band played outside. The decorations rivaled anything I've ever seen here, and lots of other places as well.

The Prime Minister and First Lady of Belize were in attendance

The Tropic Air Family

Sir Barry and Lady Dixie chat with the Prime Minister

Up close with the fishies

Dick and Carole

Minister of Tourism & Aviation, Manuel "Junior" Heredia

Steve

Miss Celi gave a great background on little Johnny and his love of airplanes. While there were several speakers, they kept their speeches quite short, knowing that the party goers were there to see the facility, eat, and drink.....did I mention drink?

Johnny stuck to his word and gave a "painfully short" speech

CJ cuts the ribbon

It was a great party, and everyone worked very hard to make sure that the party was a success.....and it was!

Girl's Lunch

We had a girl's lunch with Shanley, Bindi, Erin, at Jeannie's house. It was so hot out you could literally fry an egg, and we were all smoking hot. Well, that too, but our body temperatures were definitely elevated.

In any event, we had a glorious day in the pool and even made ourselves a little lunch. I am pretty sure that we had a few cocktails as well.

She is so cute!!!

Erin, Jeannie and Shanley

Renita giving Bindi a ride around the pool

Renita and I in the kitchen for refills

That little face!!!

Auntie Ezza and Bindi

Ez

Bindi and Mommy

Bindi taking a nap...believe it or not she is sound asleep, having rolled off the mattress

From under the futon

She wakes up to Mommy and her friends laughing at her

But she wakes up happy!!

I'm gonna miss her!

Sailing into the Sunset .... and back again

It's best to hum the theme song to "Gilligan's Island" while you are reading this post. Shanley and Brady offered to take their boat, Nepenthe out for a sunset cruise while Melanie and Ray were here. We had lots and lots of food, lots and lots of drinks, and we set out to see the sunset.

Bindi and Shanley

Bindi, Ana, and Shanley

Believe it or not, Brady was in charge of our fates that night

Mel and Ray set in for their "three hour tour"

There was a bit of a snafu after we got back. The "Bindi Jade" was anchored out, and had to be returned to be docked next to the Nepenthe. Erin went out and captained the Bindi Jade back to shore. You can see here that she is throwing the line in to Shanley, who is on the Nepenthe.

Jennifer, Bindi and Shanley

Ray helps bring Nepenthe in

Bringing down the sail

Erin throws in the other line....

Now, Ana and Shanley both have a line.....

Closer, closer...

Uh oh, try again Erin, Shanley and Ana each have the end of the same line!!!

The rising moon and the setting sun....it doesn't get much better than this

What we came for

Erin tries again

Pull Ray, pull!!!

It was a great three hour tour, with lots of laughs, good friends, good food, sea air, and a wonderful sunset....how do you get better than that?

SNUBA and a Courtyard Dinner

One night while the kids were here, we had another one of our famous courtyard dinners. Big John brought the chicken and sides, and did it up right on the barbie. Lots of our island friends showed up, along with Bally and Fawad, and a good time was had by all.






Earlier in the day, we had taken a SNUBA trip out to the Tuffy Canyon site. I stayed on the boat and snapped some photos of Renita, Bally, Fawad, Mel and Ray while they snubaed away into the deep