Gringo in the red house

Sept. 12, 2011

Today Kris and I move in the house today. Yesterday we went Santa Rosa to buy furniture and appliances. We got sofa, love seat. Chair,dinning room table and chairs, stove ,refrigerator,washing machine,and two beds with box springs for $2600. All to go into a house that I pay $138 a month for rent.

They said it would be here in the morning but of course just like in the states this means nothing. I called about 11 o'clock and they said they had not left yet. So I figured I had some time to get some things in Gracias that I need for the house. They finally got here about 3:30. Now we have a house we can live in..... So we thought

I suppose you want to know why the Man vs Beast.... Well here it is.

Kris and I are sitting at the table and I decided to get something from the bedroom and as I move one of my suitcases a few thing scattered from underneath, about an inch and a quarter long and dark brown. I am thinking we have a Roach problem. Kris and I get the broom and try to get them out of the house... Didn't work. We start looking around and guess what, theres MORE. Kris and I now decide it may be time to get tough. So we call a taxi and hightail it into town to the supermercado to get some chemical warfare, we then return for the battle. We start to spray them as we see them when we move things. It seemed like we were winning at this point. Now its time to celebrate and watch a movie.

As we watch the movie we each keep glancing at the floor and the walls, all the time trying not to let the others see what you are doing. Then the little grin when we catch each other. Then we both see one, I think it is a scout. We hit it with the spray and praise each other for a job well done. Then again and yet again, at this point we think possible we did not win the war. We see that they are coming from the door jams. So we run for our chemical warfare and spray the door jams and any other place there is a opening to the wall. Now we are in trouble, they make an all out frontal attack with there little machetes, we are being backed into the corner and we think all is lost when our weapon kicks in and they start to die. We sweep them out of the house and now we high five each other with a bit of apprehension.

We now go back to our movie cautiously.

Now we find one every so often that crawls out looking a bit ill, we are wondering if we really want to sleep here tonight or not. I try to convince Kris it is not a problem now but he does not trust what I say.

We finally goto bed, I sleep well but Kris does not. It is now Tuesday and we will make our final attack with the nuclear bomb. We will get two bombs that penetrate the whole house and we will need to leave for about three hours as it works, then another hour to air the house out.

We will triumph !!!!!!

Now for a few photos