Eh Mon! Can I gettu anyting?

We're still in Belize city and it's going well. I don't feel safe going out after dark, so we haven't been. We did a walking tour today of this area downtown and along the ocean and it was really nice. We got the info on where to go from our lonely planet guide. We saw the governors old mansion, a bird island, a cemetery and some neat houses. I had a gigantic glass of orange juice at a restaurant, got some stuff at a store (for super cheap), saw a cathedral and got to see the city in action. Later we went to see a movie and we had a nice dinner too.

There's this one guy who hangs around our hotel telling us the places we should go check out in the city and later gets aroung to asking us for money, or trying to come up with ways he can get us to give him money. "Can I gettu anyting? What do u need?" He wants to run out and grab us, "some beer? or a burger? some vics vapour rub? juice? cigarettes? anything at all, man?". Anyways, he finally just came out and asked me for some money last night, and i threw down a dollar from my balcony (he was on the street and we were hanging out upstairs). Then he came back asking if he can get us anything again. Then this evening when we came in for the night he came up to us as we got out of the cab and asked how we were, where we went, if we had fun and for more money! Dan gave him 50 cents. He's nice enough... it's just awkward standing there talking, knowing what's coming.

The streets are full of wanderers both day and night. At night we sit up in the balcony and watch the people. They are mostly our age or younger and we aren't sure if they're up to no good, or just wandering around, yelling out to each other, singing, playing loud music, etc. There are lots of stray dogs about and at night they seem to go wild barking at people. Not all the dogs, but some.

We were woken up at 4 am last night to some long honking coming from a car down below and yelling. And then we heard glass break, at which point we got up to check it out. They were trying to wake up their friend who lives across the way from us. Anyways, some great music came on in the car and the girls started singing and I kinda wished they woulda stayed out there longer, cause I was grooving to the tunes, as I spied out of my window.

Tomorrow we are going to a place called Hopkins Town and it's on the coast. We're planning on staying for maybe 3 nights or so and then we will head to the Guatemalan border and stay in a town near there before crossing over.

Bye for now!