Trip to Chaa Creek Lodge in Belize - Day 1

Note - writing this with some help from my daughter.My family and I went on a trip to Belize in early August 2017 and I am posting some notes and pictures from the trip here.We chose Belize for a few semi - random reasons. First, we had wanted to go to Europe but we really only could travel just the week before school started for my kids and we felt like Europe was (1) too far (2) would involve too much jet lag and (3) would involve too many Real Madrid fans. So we started looking around closer to home. We wanted to go out of the country (out of the USA - not just out of California, though it really is it's own country). So - well - we looked at Mexico. And Central America. And we settled on Belize.We decided to spend the whole week of our trip at one place and, since we have been going to Hawaii a bit recently, we decided we did not want to spend our time in a beach-like setting, so we looked for places in the inland rainforesty areas. My wife spent quite a lot of time searching for possible places and she came up with some candidates and after discussions on the pluses and minuses of all the places and after also asking Twitter and friends and such we settled onChaa Creek. An ecolodge of sorts with a slight upscale angle.More on the place and such later.Right now I really want to start to get some pictures posted. So here are some from our travel day.SMF to Dallas to Belize.On the planeI did not take too many (well, more than one...
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