Jungle lodge business

July 1, 2009
I guess I totally forgot that I'm trying to run a business and tell what it's like. Duh. Actually, things went well in June. We had some nice drive in business and last weekend we hosted the Indigenous Peoples Conservation Alliance Retreat. The true indigenous people of Belize are the Maya but the Alliance has to include Garifuna people to be politically correct. Personally, I don't think the Garifuna can have it both ways - they have a national holiday - Garifuna Settlement Day. From where I sit, either you settled here or you were always here. It can't be both. So, anyway, the Retreat was Maya people and Garifuna people particpating in seminars and brainstorming to get rights for their groups. We did the food for two days and had some stay overnight. I wish we could have a retreat every month for the sake of our budget. It was exhausting though so maybe I wouldn't survive it.
Now we have nothing on the books for this month. And, realistically, it could be really dry businesswise for months to come. I may have to start cutting hair again.
Rusty is putting in the piers for our spa palapa and next tuesday the posts for it will be ready. Then, all the cohune palm we have drying all over our garden will be made into the roof of the palapa. When that's done I'll have a place to cut hair if I have to. We'll see. I so hope we haven't bought a jungle lodge so I have space to put a hair cutting chair. On that encouraging note, I'm out of here...