Hi there!!  Here are some more pictures from our adventures through Belize.  As promised, here are some pictures from the Anime convention held by the Japanese Embassy in Belize.

Cosplay Contest:

The Japanese Embassy entertained with music, songs and dancing on the stage.  And of course interspersed with Anime: Negadon: The Monster From Mars, SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers and Komaneko- The Curious Cat. They also had various booths to display information on Japanese culture.  Here is the calligraphy booth:

We stayed at the Best Western Biltmore Plaza for the night.  We were pleasantly surprised and found that it had a colonial, Caribbean feel to the place despite being located in the middle of a busy city.

Back in the hotel room, after a 3 hour drive to Belize City and attendance at the Anime convention for about 4 hours, Gnome took his boots off finally.  Out of one boot, a frog popped out!

Gnome certainly insisted on taking part of the farm with him!  He said that he thought that he felt something wet in his shoe…he did not realise that he was accommodating a frog and so was somewhat relieved to find a benign cause for his slimey foot.

The frog stayed in the room with us and in the middle of the night jumped onto Gnome’s face.  It jumped and boinged quite happily in the dark attending to mosquito control.  In the morning, we found him asleep in the toilet.

This morning, we went to the Belize City public hospital, KHMH to pay our medical licences.  The Medical Board of Belize have implemented a new policy with payment whereby the money has to be paid into their bank account.  Then you have to travel all the way to KHMH in Belize City to present your bank deposit slip to them.  This year they have also started issuing annual licences to doctors once payment has been fulfilled.  Presumably they are for framing in the doctor’s clinic.  In our case, they will be hung up in the barn.

After the hospital visit, we stopped by the Taiwanese shop to pick up some Chinese goodies.  We had some refreshments…

I can not read Chinese so I don’t actually know what we drank.  It tasted like soya milk with hints of strawberry.  Check out the picture…it seems to suggest the promise of  love?  Some feminine love potion drink?  I felt a bit giddy with love for my darling Gnome afterwards…so, maybe it worked!!

It was a lovely drive with blue skies:

We even managed to squeeze in a visit to Lost Reef to meet up with friends:

Homeward bound.  We took the frog back home with us too!!