Jumanji or St. Kitts, however you like to look at it

Jumanji...
Today one of my friends referred to St. Kitts as Jumanji and that tickled me so much I was in stitches.  I laughed so hard because yes St. Kitts often does feel like Jumanji.

For those of you who do not remember or know the movie it is one with Robin Williams. It all starts when two kids up to no good decide to play an old board game (Wrong move kids).  Well as they start to play the game different things start to happen like bats fly out of the chimney and oh yeah Robin Williams gets pulled into the game.  The long short of it is Robin is in the ‘game’ for years until two other (stupid) kids find the game and start to play too.  Mosquitos, monkeys, lions, the whole works start to come out of the game.  Soon enough the city is upside down:  Monkeys driving police cars, rhino’s in the street, a crazy safari man with a dart gun, quick sand…and so on and so forth.  None of this nonsense and madness can end until the game is finished.  Despite the water and crocodiles and one of the kids becoming a monkey they are still able to finish the game!  Jumanji! Just like that the game ends and all returns to normal.

So my point is Jumanji was not real life just like St. Kitts often, at times does not feel like real life. Not so much that dangerous or disastrous events continue to occur, but strange series of events or occurrences happen from time to time.  

Like big black cows just stand in the road with no purpose other than to frustrate me to no end.  Monkeys will steal your beverage from you; well they at least wait until you aren’t looking. Mosquitos are still the size of pterodactyls. Frigate birds actually look like pterodactyls. Centipedes are carnivorous and can cause anaphylactic shock.  The Marriott feels like a Little America, at least for like an hour.  Rice and pastas often come with extra protein at no extra cost (bugs people, bugs).  To get groceries it takes going to 3 different stores and you still don’t get all that you need.  Your husband buys 37 Mt Dews at once because he doesn’t know the next time a shipment will come.  Some people don’t know what canned biscuits are so they point you to the canned food section, dumb.  Mongoose come into your house like they own the place.   Also remember the stampedes in Jumanji?  Goats do that all of time.  Monkeys ride donkeys.  Oh yeah and killer whales hang out in swimming pools….

I am happy to report that our house has not filled with water or crocodiles and to my knowledge there isn’t any quick sand on the island, however there is a dormant volcano – Jimmy Buffett anyone?

JUMANJI!  

New Semester, Duke, and oh yeah...Centipedes

Well if you haven't heard by now you are about to!


On to the next semester! Andrew did great last semester and has had a great start into this next one! He already has a few exams under his belt. He is really enjoying his classes, good! Oh and Andrew also received his white coat! So proud of him!!

Great big news is that Daniel brought Duke down to us! It was so nice to have Daniel here for a few days, though it wasn’t long enough, we all really enjoyed it. I think Daniel had a really nice time too though he didn’t get to experience anything really ridiculous…just wait Daniel, that is for you next visit! Thank you again so much Daniel for bringing our boy to us! Duke has settled in nicely and even has seen a few monkeys! He went nuts! Oh it was so much fun to watch his reaction to the monkeys.  He is still on quarantine, but will be released next week.  The quarantine is an at home quarantine, which is nice because he gets to be with us.

We also moved into this awesome house….our house was big, spacious, fenced in back yard, pool, great rooms, you know the works! It was awesome and we really loved it.  Loved, being the key point.  We really truly loved our house but our great big awesome house had one big awful problem….Centipedes.  Big, giant, carnivorous, creepy, crawly centipedes!  In the month that we lived in the home we successfully managed to kill 70 of this horrendous creatures. Many were in our house in places like our bed, our bathroom and living room.  The two worst were 1) while I was taking a shower there was one dangling above me! I screamed and screamed and screamed so move and no one came to my rescue…well finally someone did (thanks Leann). Oh and 2) was when we witnessed a ~10 incher crawl is nasty little body into our bedroom! Half of it was inside while the rest of it hung outside trying to get the rest of it in!

The centipedes varied in size and ranged from about 3 inches to 10 inches.  As if it wasn’t bad enough that the centipedes were just utterly gross they are also poisonous.  They can cause allergic reactions which could possible cause anaphylactic shock if the bite wasnt bad enough!

No centipede was safe! We had started out by killing them we a machete but then finally discovered that drowning them in water was more effective and a lot faster! Oh and when we tried to kill them they attacked! Like they had a vendetta against us or something…funny, because the feeling was mutual.  And after 1 month of endless centipedes we had finally had enough.  The centipedes just became too disruptive to our lives.  They were effective our sleep and the boys studying.  We couldn’t go to bed each night without going hunting or scanning the ceiling or removing all of our sheets to look for centipedes! So we said goodbye to our awesome house and good reddens to the centipedes.

Several big blessings came out of our move and attack centipedes.  Firstly, our roommates Leann and Brayton Hill are simply amazing! Secondly, we found an even more amazing home that suits our needs much better! The obvious being no centipedes! And the second is that our new home has an office! The boys are able to be very studious and retreat to their bat cave! Our new home is perfect! I can’t wait to show all of y’all pictures! You’ll simply love it! What’s great is our friends bring their friends over for tours! Yes tours! Haha.


What else, what else..umm. oh yes! Andrew and I celebrated out 2 year anniversary. It was wonderful! He had a nice romantic evening at little America..the Marriott. Couldn't be happier!

Caution: The pictures below are terrifying! Proceed with caution!

Offical!

Leann on a nightly hunt

Kitchen Tongs

Above our bed

Daniel!

Cute!

What a great place to celebrate our 2nd year of marriage

One hansome boy!

Duke!

So happy!