LJ in BELIZE!: Moving In To Our New House

So, we moved into our new home and spent the WHOLE DAY and night Sunday (a week ago) cleaning, rearranging the furniture, cleaning, going out and buying supplies like tp, shower curtain etc, cleaning, stocking our fridge, deciding what to use different drawers and cabinets for, and more cleaning. . . it had not been lived in for a while, so it needed some scrubbing when we got there, but we got SUCH a great deal on the place, it was worth it.

The best memory was when Tati screamed my name, and I looked over and there were a BILLIONTRILLION HUGE BEETLE ANT WINGED CRAWLING CREATURES literally SPEWING out of a bottom cabinet. . . none of them managed to fly, and so it was like we were literally at war. We grabbed the nearest sprays (orange kitchen cleaner (sorry Waverly) and something else) and started SPRAYING and MASHING. Mashing meaning with our feet, stomping on every bug that was trying to get through. It seriously felt like WAR! None of the enemies were able to conquer our forces . . . it was CRAAAAZY. I took a pic of all the dead enemy soldiers . . .

Another hilarious memory is one morning I woke up to run (6am) and I saw this little cute toad just hanging out in the kitchen, on the knife block. I watched and it was seriously trying so hard to squeeze its little butt into one of the holes!!! I was so bewildered. I took a picture haha . . . so anyway, when I got back later, Tati (who hates bugs, reptiles, amphibians etc) was around, and I told her that there was a toad in our knife block . . . you can imagine the face she made, of confusion and ew yuck gross-ness. Anyway we put it under the faucet and OUT JUMPED THE TOAD STRAIGHT TOWARDS TATI! Haha it was a fantastic memory.

We also made a trip to Belize city, met up with a lady named Maria who is going to do all the cooking for the conference. She can do magic with food.

I also took Tati to the little mountain I found, and of course later on, our landlord told us that the bush (paths I run on) are pretty dangerous . . . bad news. We have the cutest neighbor boys, a friendly guard dog (Tiger) and a really great roof to look at the stars at night.

some wild flowers

neighbors new puppy!

Chad, one of the three cutest boys next door

the upper part is unfinished

completely cement house

Tati taking down the Christmas decorations lol

We don't have a tv, but we found this to go in its place

our house is so amazing! We are SO grateful to God for it!

bedroom

antique phone

decorations of paint

doing business. . . check out the pen in Tati's toes

Mr Belizean is a man who sold me some dub poetry about the Belize "he used to know" - it's pretty cool actually. Tati had to translate, but at the end of every poem/rap he says: "Mr. Belizean Says" . . . we have started a quote(s) of the day(s) board . . .

during this time of political elections, Tati got a free tshirt out of it!

Tiger, our guard dog being all handsome one morning

So coffee makers are no joke like $90 to buy! So we made our own makeshift one and it works really well! Strainer, coffee filter, coffee, hot water and voila! Freshhh