Tummy is back to normal. I think it was going to the gym that did it. That and a little acidophilus got everything running smoothly. But not tooo smoothly.
Last night was kill tremendously huge bug/spider night in my house. It is amazing how I am getting accustomed to these things. The spider I had seen before. It was one of those big double bubble ones. I call it that because it has two big round parts for a body. The bug, on the other hand, I had never seen before. It was like a supersized grasshopper, only with a tubular body and antenna that were three times bigger than itself. That sucker did not want to die. I think it wanted to attack me first. Of course I was trapped in the bathroom with it so there was nowhere to run. It crawled across the ceiling, then dive bombed me. I screamed and hid in the shower. Finally it crashed onto the floor outside the shower, spilling guts all over. GROSS!
Jetty's asthma is acting up from my mad killing spree. I try to be concise and limit the amount of bug spray I use, but with gigantic beasts like these too much is never enough. I have seen them come back to life after I thought they were dead! So Jetty is a little wheezy.
I am really enjoying the weather. The rainy season ended a month ago. It has been warm and sunny every day with an occasional thunderstorm just when you are tired of baking in the heat. I can hang laundry out to dry and it actually dries! Something those of you who have never lived near a rain forest really can't appreciate. I have also been leaving the second floor windows open at night. I love to snuggle in my blankets with a nice breeze blowing through.
One week into the dry season the fires had already started. The air was pretty smoky, but nothing like last year. Of course it is still early. Yesterday on the radio they were announcing water shortages, which I can't believe since it rained from June until February. That rainy season felt endless like a Northern New York winter.
In other news "The Party is Over". That's what they said about all of the people who are running unregistered vehicles for public transportation. Transportation police are going to have roadblocks 3 times/week to get the unregistered busses, taxis and moto-taxies (aka tuk-tuks in Guatemala and Thailand) off the road.
Road blocks in Honduras are kind of a joke. They announce on the news each morning who they are targeting, so people know ahead of time and just take the day off if they are not legal. But the radio announcer who said, "The Party is Over" said the last time they set up roadblocks, of 30 buses only five were legal. They estimate over a thousand unregistered tuk tuks are on the road. And who knows how many taxis.
Yesterday morning in the news I also caught that some prison gangs were throwing grenades at each other at 3 a.m. and trying to escape. They were talking about preparing the hospitals for the injured and dead people.
My church in the US was supposed to have a team meeting about planning a trip to Honduras, but apparently people forgot about it so it was postponed until next week. I would love to host them and am hoping they make it here eventually. I think it has been 4 years since the last team was here. It would be great to get them excited about Honduras again.
