yesterday we came back to the house to see roberto and felipe throwing stones and hitting something with a stick. it was a snake! he was fast and was wiggling round and standing up on his tail - he was big, maybe 3.5 feet. they'd been trying to kill him a few times, but he was too fast and slippery snake like. felipe said he's a water snake - probably he's come up out of the water from all the rain recently (silly snake he should love the rain if he's really a water snake). he wibbled off down one of the crab holes after being attacked and we poured some gas down there and set it on fire (this didn't make the house explode too). haven't seen him since, but he may just have found a different hole in the underground hole network under the house. am hoping the gas made him pass out. i've never seen an unconscious snake, i wonder what it looks like, maybe his little tongue will be poking out and he'll have gone all green. we will see if we start to smell anything and then we'll know he's dead i guess.
yesterday was also commonwealth day. what this means i don't know. if anything just an excuse for a holiday here for them. the banks and government offices were closed, and apparently there had been a queen's birthday parade down town. was it her birthday? funny england doesn't have a holiday for this, but belize does.
sunday we went to lamanai outpost lodge, up north on the new river. you drive up and park by the boat dock and they take you around an hour along the river to the lodge, which is wooden thatched cabins coming up out of the jungle. very nice and cosy. extremely noisy in the night with the squeaky cricket bugs, and the howler monkeys - seemed like they were right on our doorstep. we met with mark, the owner, a guy from australia who's been here in belize for 20 years. he had SO much information (notice capital letters) about running a resort, especially on an island. i was overwhelmed, but noted it all down for future reference. we went to see the mayan ruins of lamanai, a few minutes down river. lamanai means submerged crocodile. it was really cool to see some ruins, as i haven't seen any for a while and was thinking that was silly seeing as we're here amongst all these ruins. there used to be around a million mayans in belize in the days of the ancient mayans, now there's only 270,000 people in belize, and they're not all mayans at all. weird huh.
other than that, not much to report. work continues on the house here in belize city. slowly, as this is belize.... rain has stopped for now, but i'm sure there'll be more soon. i got to wear my rain coat which was very exciting, it totally kept me dry which was good as sometimes they aren't as waterproof as they say they're going to be.
over and out. x
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