Thanksgiving Trip - Day 1 - Belize City

 My oldest brother, Nate, and I went on a Thanksgiving trip to Belize and Guatemala.  And it was AWESOME! It was my first time in both of those countries and since I took so many pictures, I am making a blogpost about each day.

We arrived at Belize City International Airport and there was a live band playing traditional Belizean music at baggage claim that we could hear while going through passport control.  It was quite the welcome to Belize.  Everyone at the airport and the hotel we stayed at and even people on the street were all very friendly and welcomed us to Belize and made sure we were enjoying our stay.

 This is the hotel we stayed at, the Great House Inn.  I loved the look of it.  It was clean, the room was big, and the hotel in a good location.

 We still had an hour or so of daylight when we checked in (we were advised to not go out at night time in Belize City) so we decided to take a walk and see what we could see downtown before it got dark.

It was a dirty town and the roads not very nice, but the buildings were so colorful.  Everywhere we went in Belize (and Guatemala), I couldn't get over how colorful the buildings were.

 Some scenes of Belize City!

 The Caribbean Sea!

At the hotel we stayed at they had a restaurant below which served Thanksgiving dinner.  Since we got there on Thanksgiving day, we decided to eat there for dinner.  It was called The Smokey Mermaid.

We had turkey and ham and potato salad and rice and beans and cranberry sauce and corn and stuffing and fried plantain and gravy to pour over our turkey and ham.  The dinner was quite good.  Of course nothing can take the place of homemade Thanksgiving dinner but considering that we were in a foreign country that doesn't normally celebrate Thanksgiving, we were happy with our dinner!

At the end of day one we were exhausted from waking up early and traveling time.  But it was awesome!