Odds and Ends

Mya loves to play in the shower in our room. She goes in and closes the door and plays and plays and plays. We are all missing having our own space, and I think that she thinks that Cannon won't take her toys if she goes in there, Notice the feety pajamas, the kids have to wear them at night, so we can run the AC in our room. The only time we are cool. The kids are extra cool, cause neither one will sleep with blankets on. It is usually between 85 and 95 here in the day and usually about 80% to 100% humidity, so it feels like its 101- 114. The nights do cool down to about 82 and its usually breezy which is a nice break.

Mya as a Mus-a -lum. She pulled the arm of my shirt over her head and Cannon said, "Hey, Mom, Look Mya's one of those Mus-a-lums." He thinks that Muslim as an A in it.

We had a 2 (with the antennae it's about 4 inches) GROSS!!! inch cockroach in our bedroom. Lyn the house keeper caught it for us. Thanks Lyn! Cannon insisted on keeping him as a pet. He crawled around in a bottle for 2 days, before we convinced Cannon to "let him go." He ate holes in 2 of Cannon's shirts and a pair of Mya's shorts before we caught him. He was in the kids clothes drawer. I wasn't aware that they ate clothes, but Lyn said they do. :(

Rambutan another local fruit. Not so fantastic, But at least I tried it!!

The space on the island is so limited that they are "reclaiming" the land. Meaning they are piling sand over rocks and more sand over rocks and pushing the land out further into the Sea, making the coastline of the island bigger. There is not much room where we are, although the east and south sides of the island are not as developed. They are still jungle and not really inhabited. But there is a chance that your ocean side condo will not always be an ocean side condo! The hotel next to us has a beach volley ball court above their parking garage. Another building has two tennis courts on top of it! Pretty good use of space!

For My Mom, these are the guards that check every person that comes into the building. The whole area around our building is fenced in, and the only way through is past these guards. They have guards there 24, 7. They are very friendly and the kids love waving to them as we leave and come back to the building. We also have key cards that are only programmed to work to the floor we're on. So we stay on the 19th floor and that is the only floor we can go to. If we want to go to another floor to meet someone else, we have to go down to the first floor and meet them and go back up in the elevator together. Lots of security measures, so I feel very safe here!