Canoeing - Day 1

Well, yet another visitor has come to see us-----Tyler!!

   He has barely been here yet, and already they are paddling in the La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge. (You can Google that if you want!) It is a 4 day canoe race from San Ignacio(Just 25 minutes away from us), all the way to Belize City(1 hour and 45 mins. away). In all, the length of river that they have to paddle is 170 miles!

   The team name is Shoots Alive,(our micro green and sprout business) and it consists of Tyler, Daddy, a guy from Spanish Lookout named Kevin and , of coarse, the support crew(consists of Mommy, Keaton, Grady, Nelson and I!) You can track our boys by clicking on this link.........
(http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp)
.....or check out our Shoots Alive Facebook page for updates.

   Today we were up at 5:30AM to eat some breakfast and "get outta' here" by 6:00AM. Then to San Ignacio we went. There we dropped in the boat and waited until 7:00AM when the canoes took off. Then into the car and to Mennonite beach, where we could see the boys and drop in a bag of food with: granola bars, power gels and coconut waters, for them. Then we zipped off to Iguana Creek Bridge to catch them there again and to drop off some bananas. Then we had lots of time. At Iguana Creek they were 2 miles short of halfway and there was no river access until their destination for today, Banana Bank Lodge. So we went home, did the dishes and had a snack. And, yet again, we drove of to Banana Bank Lodge. It was SUPER muddy and slippery so we pretty much slid down the hill to the river where it was PACKED with people. We waited for about 1 and 1/2 hours until Shoots Alive arrived.  Then we (Mommy and Nelson)lugged the canoe back up the hill and came home. Now we are just chilling on the couch and the boys are drinking their coffee. Nery and Marien are bringing dinner tonight, so we are just calming down and waiting for them.

   I will keep you posted(Actually, I will TRY to) on each day, but you can visit our Facebook page above to get more details.
   Love
Paige
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