The Landing Gear Is Down!

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The landing gear is down! We took the water taxi out to San Pedro this morning, and we are now safe and sound in our apartment, 2 stories above the soon-to-be, Shoots Alive store!! God is SO good!

After arriving in San Pedro at 11:30am. with roughly 800-1000lbs of cargo plus 3 suitcases, we got in contact with a guy with a pickup truck to haul our cargo a couple miles to the store complex.
What did we bring that weighs around 800lbs?!?! Well, 3 wooden bourbon barrels which we repurposed for holding peppers etc. in the store, many many wooden shelves crafted by the awesome men of our house, a printer, boxes of store supplies, wooden signs, 4 bikes for transportation....and I probably forgot to mention some items!!!

We are hoping to open our doors on May 13 for a very, very soft opening. Seeing as we are no pros at this, we want to start slow.

Well, the next 6 weeks will be busy, so please forgive me if I don’t get the blog updated regularly. None the less, keep checking for new exciting posts about the store progress and maybe.....more recipes!

Fun (or kinda boring?) Facts About San Pedro and Where We Are Living:

(This ones for Nana) * there are 28 stairs in total to get to our apartment
* in San Pedro, there are mostly only golf carts for peoples transportation. Not many people have cars, just golf cars, with the exception of taxis and people with permits to own vehicles out here.
* Wow, I guess that’s...all the fun facts....

Our 800-1000lbs of cargo to be loaded on the water taxi

First dinner in San Pedro - Salad with good ole' beans and fresh mango

Our high class ride to the water taxi in Belize City - the box truck!

The living room of our apartment......perfectly comfortable!

Mom put a shipping label on each of us....good one, Mom!

 


Well, thats all for tonight, but keep posted for more pictures and posts!

*Mel and Me
(well, minus Mel, becasue we didnt bring her with us to the island)

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