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!