Greetings from Belize! I can hardly believe we are in October! It seems like summer was just a few days ago, but this week I couldn’t feel farther away from the tasting room. We anchored off the coast of Renguana Caye, probably my favorite Island so far. Calm crystal clear waters, amazing reef life, coconut trees and a white sandy beach. This week our lectures centered around Worldview. Chris Toney, our fabulous DP director, humbly and objectively led us through a study on the major world religions, a deeper look at our own faith, and led us in some interesting discussions on some of the major issues surrounding culture today. It was a challenging week and fun to delve into these sensitive issues, and needless to say there was a lot of agreeing to disagree.

Here’s Becky, Maggie and I on the dingy riding back from Renguana Caye. There is actually a little resort of the Island and they wanted to charge us $10 a person to be there. So we kindly said no thank you, took some pictures and went back to the boats…everybody has to make a living I suppose!

“Oh Josh” is a phrase we say a lot on the boats. Josh is Chris and Lynn’s 14yr old son. He is full of energy, charisma and can pretty much climb up any structure put before him. He is the little brother we never/always wanted and the boat wouldn’t be the same without him. For example, the other night Josh decided it would be a good idea to try to fit through our bathroom hatch, which is a really small window in our bathroom ceiling, he got stuck for a while but managed to wiggle his way into our room. Then we proceeded to throw coins at each other’s heads for about a half an hour. Sweet kid. Josh also has an uncanny ability to make friends within minutes as soon as we get to a new place, it’s amazing, he knows everyone in Placencia.

Yes, I saw a shark while snorkeling this week. If I had pants on I would have probably pooped in them. The shark was about 6ft long and kind of annoyed with us but absolutely amazing to swim with.