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... 8220;Because we could die!&#8221; Hahah very true, little one! Maybe I should just give that as a reason for everything. We shouldn&#8217;t hit each other or rip the books because we could die! <br><br>Tonight is the Honduras vs. U.S. soccer game and I don&#8217;t know who to support! I want to support the homeland, but I&#8217;d love to see the whole country erupt with joy at their win. I think I&#8217;ll stick to team-neutral colors just in case&#8230;<br><br>

... Fruit. The lady makes it herself and uses fresh fruit! <br><br>English- not Spanish is spoken here. <br><br>I stayed at Seaspray- it was a good place, clean and right by the water!<br><br>Snorkeling: instead of going with one of the big name Outfitters to the same place I found a guy that would do it 10 dollars cheaper and it was only me and my 2 friends to other islands. The guys name was Rene and he just put up a small shack on the cement ...

... from the foriegn tourists. The island is owned by a Belizean and Belizeans get to visit for free. Herman had only one facial expression, a huge non stop smile. This is not all that uncoomon here. The next morning we set sail for Tobacco Caye, of course we snorkled along the way. The best snorkling I have evr done. Beautiful!! Tobacco Caye was a cool little (5 acre) Island. There was a bar and litle wooden cabanas scattered about. We set up our tents in the middle of everything ...

... so we headed over to guatemalan immigration to pay our exit fee.. evidently the price has gone up .. its now $10 usd each to leave... ouch considering we were only in the country for about 4 hours total... so after enjoying the lovely air conditioning in the guatemala border control we went back out into the heat and a 10 minute walk over to the market...shane thought the market was big and sweaty.. but he did manage to pick up a grotesque pair of ...

... take them to customs and immigration of Honduras. The problem was that we were still standing outside the immigration office at 11 a.m. and the lady that has the stamp hadn't arrived yet (she probably had a rough night or something). So we were patiently waiting in line for over an hour until her majesty the stamp owner arrived and started sorting out problems. There were all sorts (locals who had a passport with less than 6 months left ...

... and thus are seen more like the way rats are seen, as disease ridden pests to be rid of. Of course, the pet owners have more money then most of the local population. There are communities that have started spay and neuter programs and this helps tremendously. Got a hankering for practicing in a third world country and/or starting a similar program check out Guatemala. Your expertise would be nothing but welcomed.

So we wake and get to the tour place. They are not leaving until one. On the way back the hotel we run into Kate and Jason, a couple from Oxford who we have met here and there on our trip. We first met them at Orange Walk on the Lamani tour. We join them for breakfast. Every time we meet someone new one of the first questions is, "So, what do you do?" I've had trouble in this area because, well, I do nothing. This doesn't go over well ...

... and Jam Factory. This factory is down the longest and worst dirt road I have ever seen!! Along the way we passed an oddly out of place really built up complex...turns out this is owned by one of the rich Belizean families. Apparantly, as is the case in most of the CA countries, this one family controls virtually all of the wealth in the country - and also controls the government. Anyways, hit the factory and our taxi driver did the tour ...

... very professional. It took us an hour to reach the reef (nothing sounds like a 2 stroke motor on full throttle) as it was about 35 kilometres out from the mainland here, and once we arrived we pretty much got straight in the water. It felt very deep, even though it was only about 30 metres, as the water was incredibly clear and the beams of sunlight just petered out into nothing in the depths - it felt like we were hovering off a 10 storey building. Once all the ...

... the most important decision of ones life. It could make your life a mess or it could make it amazing. The one question (besides the meaning of life) that we couldn´t answer was why do people have children. We agreed that it was an evolutionary based desire that was very primal. Neither Jeremy or I are anywhere close to having kids and we can´t quite understand the concept yet. We admittedly both will probably have kids some day.