Finally - A Tarantula!

Although I had already been up for over an hour, getting ready and doing my devotions...I definitely woke up even stronger when I headed to the bathroom, opened the door and a large cockroach came running out of the bathroom towards me!  I chased it back into the bathroom and headed to the kitchen looking for a broom to sweep it outside, but both brooms were not in there.  When I came back and opened the door to use the bathroom, it ran under the couch.  I guess I'll have to wait for another day to get it out of the room.

This morning, our neighbors, the Millers left to head back to the States.  We hung around (rather than heading to the medium boys house) so that they could give us their keys.  Although they planned to get picked up at 7am, I'm guessing that the van showed up for them sometime between 6:20 and 6:25am!  They did end up pulling out at around 7am though.  They mentioned that it will take until noon the next day before they are back at home.  Noah was really excited about the left-over food that they were leaving behind.

Noah and I did some final cleaning of the hotel and then I went to the yard with the special needs boys for the morning while Noah went to work with Moncho.  I was excited to see some of the power toddlers in the yard (their teacher wasn't in school today) that I had gotten to know a couple of years ago while working in the Toddler House with Alina - Jefferson, Jeffrey, Jorge, and Chino.  One thing that I've noticed I've been terrible at this year is taking pictures, and of course by the afternoon I realized that I should've have taken a picture of these boys.

After lunch, I headed back to the hotel to change the laundry and make the medium boys guacamole for supper.  Noah helped out with peeling the onions, getting the 'juices' out of the tomatoes before cutting them and a few other things.  The water shut off at about 2pm and I wasn't able to wash the cilantro, so I waited for about an hour for it to come back on...but it didn't.  I sent Noah down to the store to buy a few bottles of water, so that I could finish up the guacamole with the cilantro.  We walked the guacamole down to the comedor and put a large tablespoon into each of the medium boys' bowls.  I gave the remaining guacamole to the ladies who were working in the kitchen.  The medium boys were VERY appreciative of the guacamole added to their rice and beans for supper!

After supper, Noah headed to the cancha to play soccer with the medium boys while I headed up to Michell's house to watch the movie, 'The Shack' with them.  I bought this movie in town.  They all loved the movie!  Towards the end, I heard the 'tia' (lady who is in charge for the night) mention a tarantula.  The room was dark, and I only quickly saw a small spot on the wall which she swatted off and then did some fancy footwork and shuffled it out the door.  When the movie was over and I left, there was a squashed tarantula right outside the front door which ants were already starting to carry away!  It was a rather small one, compared to the ones I've seen over the years, but it was my first tarantula sighting this year.  We have not really seen many of the big bugs we've seen in the past this year, which has been a real bummer for Noah.

When I got back to the hotel room, Noah was eating some supper.  After he was done, we went to our room for the night and settled in.