Carnival was last weekend in Belize City! A friend and I hitchhiked and took the bus up to Belize City. Hitchhiking is very common here, and we figured since there were two of us, we'd try. There were many other people hitchhiking as well so we got to meet some interesting people, one of whom was a hitchhiker who said he had fathered many children with different women, and said his name was "Boom-Boom." My friend and I were able to hitch rides for parts of the trip in both directions, but in the end took the bus most of the way, especially since it started raining on us on the way back! The parade was fun -- great costumes and dancing. One of the floats in the parade was for "One Barrel," a popular brand of Belizean rum. In the parades I remember from my American childhood, candy was hrown out to the crowd, but in this one, cups of rum-and-coke were handed out to the crowd!