Belize-Day 3

Day 3 (Thursday)

Late, late, late :) That's how my morning started! Late to breakfast, late to get a shower and late to get on the bus to head to Lamanai! But the bus wouldn't start right away so I was fine. We had a two hour bus ride to Lamanai and like I always say the bus rides are half the fun! From Speaking in British Accent to taking pictures of Amish kids (i know shame on us ESPECIALLY since we live in Lancaster! :}) to watching the guys try to hang off the ceiling. If ya don't know what Lamanai is it is an ancient Mayan Indian site. Our guide Eddie was incredible and had a teasing side to him. He got us to believe that the howler monkeys were jaguars! Such gullible people we are! The ruins were amazing and so surreal. The really neat thing was we were allowed to climb the ruins and James was even doing some parkour on them (no surprise there). The biggest ruin we got to climb was over 100 feet tall and it was above the tree line so it was absolutely gorgeous! Then it was souvenir shopping we went! Belize money is 2 to our 1 So its like a 50% sale everywhere you go! The trip back was awesome although many people slept. ( I have no idea how!!) We only had a little time to prepare for vbs when we got back but even so It went Amazing! We ended up doing David and Goliath and the theme was God is Faithful. David and Goliath would have been the play I had written and this time we used a translator which worked amazingly!  The kids seemed to understand the message so much clearer! At one point I felt a phone being placed on my ear and it was ringing and dad answered! I got to talk to my daddy on my birthday! Afterwards some of the kids stuck around and we had a photo shoot and got to know the kids a little better. One of the kids even took me and Tim (us girls needed a guy with us at all times!) to her house and I got to meet a few of her family although her mom didn't know a lick of English so I had to communicate solely in Spanish. It was really eye-opening. The pastor told us he had been praying for someone like us to come for over a year which was really humbling realizing. After supper some of the guys went and played basketball and Marybeth Alicia and I went along to watch but soon we were surrounded by 9-14 year old guys. They were hysterical! First they were convinced we had boyfriends that we weren't telling them about and then explaining to us that when someone is suspicious you say "I smell a rat" but the whole time I thought there were saying "I smell arot" so I thought I was learning a new saying while they were proud of the american phrase they knew!! :) Sieed (a 14 year old kid we grew to love) said that Sunday (our last day there) would be a very sad day (awww that made my heart melt). As we left the basketball court and were walking home we heard the kids running after us. apparently we had forgotten like 3 of our water bottles and there were returning them. "See, See we are good kids" one of the guys told us. :) That night we had our nightly meeting where we would discuss the day and we each gave our highs and lows of the day which was really cool hearing each persons experience. Then off to bed we went! :)