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Ok, i’m back to writing on the beach on my own computer, and then pen driving it to the internet cafe. I have to start cutting some money corners here. Haha. And being on the internet for 2 hours a day is not helping my pocket book.\
Also its nice, on our front porch, to watch the sunset while i type,
Haha.
Well, so, another blissful day in paradise. I’m sure you’re all getting tired of hearing that.
I suppose i do have an interesting story to tell you from the night before last.... hmmmm, where to begin? Well, its not gonna be a good story for some of you... but here goes: i was in my bed the other night, right (lol).... and my bed is surrounded by a mosquito net that is tucked in on all sides. Now this particular night i had woken up at 1am, thinking it was just before dawn, for some reason, i didn’t bother to check a clock or anything, i just got up and came outside and laid down on my back to watch the stars... i put on my hoody cause it was kind of cold and i was just laying there, enjoying the view, and waiting for the sun to come up. Except the sun didn’t come up, and suddenly the thought occurred to me... maybe i oughta really check the time, right? And so i got up and looked... haha, its only 1am, so i went back to bed. I wore my hoody. I fell asleep. Next thing i know, there is a tickle in my sleeve. You know the feeling like when there is a spider on your skin? Well, this sensation sort of woke me up and then i just sort of ignored it and was just starting to drift off again when again, i felt it. This time it was definitely something walking across my feet on top of my covers! More like ....skittering across. Oh god! What is it this time? I’ve had crabs on my tent in costa rica.... scorpions on my pillow in the Nicaraguan Bay Islands.... I just couldn’t, didn’t want to imagine, what i was up against here. But since i am enclosed INSIDE this mosquito net with whatever it is, I am pretty eager to find out what IT is. I jump up, i flick the light on and i just stand there.... watching. Mom sleeps on....
Finally i see a little twitch or flicker of my mosquito net in the one corner, so i move the chair away from the bed, and as i do this is see..... a tail disappearing under the mattress. Oh god again. I’m thinking maybe its just a gecko (baby lizard, no biggy). But i still don’t want to sleep with it. Lol. So i gingerly remove all my blankets and pillows from inside. I don’t want what ever it is, making a run for it and getting tangled up in my blankets. Ugh. And then i look, and he peeks back at me.... its a small cute mouse, looking more disconcerted and panicky than i feel.
How’re we gonna get you out of there little guy? I start to untuck the netting out from under the mattress all around, to give him a chance to escape. No, he is scared and running away from me, deeper into the netting and then finally UP the inside of the netting up to the top and now he is staring down at me as he stands on top of the bambook crossbars that spread the net apart at the top. I shake it and i shake it and he holds on for dear life. Mom sleeps on even after i start talking to the little guy, thinking maybe he will listen if i tell him what to do. Hahaha.
Finally he falls down onto the bed again and tries to bury under the mattress again and make himself invisible. He buries his head and just hopes i’ll go away. He is closer to the opening in the net now, and so... i figure with a brave flick of my hand i can send him airborn towards the opening. IT WORKS! The little bugger is now on his feet and flying along the floor and up the nearest wall and out of the hut.
Phew! We both exclaim with relief. That was a close one.
I figured that he must have either been inside my hoody when i put it on, or climbed inside when i was laying on my back watching the stars outside, because the mosquito net is sealed on all sides, apparently it serves to keep out more than just the mosquitos eh. Sheesh. The mosquitos are kind of a joke anyways. Each dawn and each dusk, it seems like there are exactly 4 mosquitos that come out for about ... 10 minutes, fly around lackadaisically and then disappear. They don’t seem particularily hungry or driven to bite, although they do, i have been bitten. But they are not thick and ferocious and relentless the way they are in Canada when you are camping in the summer. Kamloops is great rrfor that, we don’t have so many mosquitoes ya.
It is sunset and everyone is making there sunset pilgrimage from one location to another. The beach becomes a highway as people move from one location to another along the beach, using it as a road.
The crowds have dropped off, now that new years is over. It is nice, a little strange to be so quiet, but i’m not complaining.
Well, there goes the sun, not much of a sunset tonight, other than the sun itself turning bright bright red. As it likes to do in Asian countries. The rest of the sky stays a muted grey as the world loses colour until tomorrow.
Hope all had a happy new year. Love, peace.