FAMILIA EN GUATEMALA!

I was checking my facebook today (directory where people send little messages...for you old fogies) and got a note saying "dead? or alive?" so I realized that it had maybe been a while since I'd filled people in on my life. This This past weekend was unbelieveable. The family came on Tuesday and it was so good to see them! It was like I hadn't even been away. They were so surprised at my city (yes, it is my city. I own it.), they thought it was gonna be like the poor parts of Mexico but it's frickin beautiful and they loved it. My parents are now convinced they're going to learn Spanish...yeah in all their free time right? No but for real we had a blast. We went to Belize (taking 3 planes to get there...first to El Salvador, then to Belize City, then to Placencia which is where we stayed). We stayed in the cutest little beach hut with a hammock out front. There was literally nothing else around there. It rained one day but we read a lot and the other days were nice. The ocean was seriously gorgeous and so warm! For sure warmer than my showers usually are. I made friends with this dog named Balls...well his name wasn't really Balls, but he had huge balls so I thought the name was appropriate. No like seriously they were enormous. Like painfully huge. Anyways, we would run down the beach together and he would bite and hang on to my hand and drag me along. I only have very minor puncture wounds. Rabies? What's that? We played in the ocean and bonded a lot. So this place is kinda secluded with not a ton to do if you're not in the ocean, so Brett and I invented the greatest game ever. It's called Tribal Ball and it involves a huge piece of bamboo which functions as a bat (Brett's new favorite name is Guillermo, so he named the bat Guillermo), a tennis ball, and large amounts of pain. The pain comes during the pelting part of the game when the pitcher chases the hit ball and chucks it as hard as he can at the batter/runner. I have bruises all over my body. This game has no mercy. The game kinda died when a homerun landed the ball in Cuba (unfortunately I can't claim that one) and we had to start using these little coconuts. It was fine if you didn't hit the ball, but if you did it got rotten coconut nasty juice all over everything (especially the pitcher) which wasn't the best part. K so yeah Belize was amazing and then we stayed at this sweet hotel in Guatie that the Clintons and Julio Iglesias and a bunch of people had stayed in. It was beautiful. Anyways I was sad to see them go but we had such an amazing time and I'm just so grateful for that. K so obviously a lot has happened since I wrote last but I'm gonna limit this blog (I still think that's the nastiest word ever...blog) to family stuff and do separate ones for other stuff. My camera accidentally got in mom and dad's luggage so I gotta wait till it comes back to put pics up but I think it's coming soon. K more bloggings on the way. I promise!