A Day for Wildlife

Today was an interesting day with more animal interactions than I’ve had since we got here.

It started while I was in the kitchen gearing up to cook some breakfast. I looked over at the sink and couldn’t help but notice something big and brown on the counter in front of the microwave. On closer inspection it was a cockroach the size of my thumb flailing about on its back. I managed to get out a few “eeks” and then grabbed the can of bug killer. I’m normally not real big in to killing bugs, but this particular bug I was really into killing.

Once that was over Jason came to the rescue by putting the roach in the trash and then taking it somewhere far far away…a/k/a the trash out back.

Next, we got our pool gear and walked out the front door. Jason immediately noticed a green lizard on our stoop. Finally, a lizard nice enough to let us take his picture. Here he is lookin’ good.

After we got that long-awaited photo out of the way, we headed toward the beach. We no longer have our mini-car so we walked to the Radisson where we planned to hang out at the pool for awhile. We’ve found a couple of short cuts that allow us to bypass the Wendy’s parking lot and the crazy intersection without a crosswalk, which makes the walk a little nicer. As we were strolling through the grass we managed to spook a lizard, much like the one we saw on the stoop, who ran from out of the grass and into the street where he was immediately smooshed by a passing car. The accident scene was not even five feet away from us and all we could do was look on in horror. Not to sound dramatic, but it might’ve been the saddest case of road kill I’ve been witness to.

We made it to the Radisson where in the lobby they had several different tropical birds hanging out, including some macaws and other “pretty” birds. One of the birds actually came right up to us and talked for awhile. Here they are showing off.

From here we continued on to the pool. Of course we aren’t allowed at the pool because we are not guests, but the pool at our place is a little boring so we decided to make up a story about our friends “Jill and Brad” who were staying at the Radisson and meeting us there “around noon.”

It was a lie we never had to use, but it made us feel better.

So between the two dead creatures and the the potential lying, we had some bad kharma coming our way. I think it came to us with the sun burns we ended up with. Hopefully we’re even now.

This is a picture of Jason reading a book about traveling to Southeast Asia while simultaneously getting a sunburn.