When we arrived at the end of December, the house that was started last year and promised to us, wasn't ready. It was to be ready in 15 - 20 days. It still isn't ready!!! Construction on the second house, above right, was started in January. We put up with the noise and aweful smells coming from the efforts to make the house "water proof" thinking it was all going to be short lived but this week the construction project changed. A new crew came to work on the front wall and with it came loads of sand, gravel and construction materials. They are mixing cement 5 feet from our door!!! Read the latest developements at the end of this piece.
On Wednesday I was putting away my bike in the back patio when I heard these sweet little bird noises coming from above me. I looked up and OMG there was this 2 - 3 foot iguana right above my head. I rushed back into the house, my feet barely touching the tile. I was so shocked I could hardly tell Ray what had scared me back inside at such a speed. The first person to try and help was our Mexican neighbour from across the street. He brought his ladder from his kid's bunk beds and used it to climb up on with one foot and the other foot on top of our big blue gas tank. By the time he arrived to help only the tail was coming out of the top of the gas water heater. He grabbed the tail and tried to wrestle the critter out of the heater BUT after a few grueling minutes, he had 6 - 8 inches of tail in his hand and no body attached!!!
The second helper was another Mexican neighbour from down the road coming with a pillowcase and two sticks. By the time he had arrived, the tailless iguana was out of the water heater and he was able to scare it down onto the floor. He tried to encourage the iguana to climb into the pillowcase with the help of the sticks. The final hero of the day was Ray who picked the little hissing monster up and placed it in the pillowcase!!! We hear they eat iguanas down here. I'm sure it tastes like chicken!!!!!
We were over at Iguanas Ranas the other day when this crew arrived. They were trying to sell this green iguana for $20. The one we had was a black one. Aren't they an interesting bunch???
We are just loving the barbe!!!
Friday saw us taking a ride through La Travara. We started at the bridge for the first time and quickly realized that it makes for a much better ride. You get to see much more of the mangrove swamp and the jungle before you have to grovel on the bottom of the boat as you go under the highway and end up at the usual spot to start the tour near Las Islitas.
It is such a great adventure ride. There are so many wonderful birds, tortoises,crocodiles, tropical plants and even the odd boa. The one we saw couldn't be inticed into action. Thank you Lord!!!
Another day at Iguanas Ranas, there were these great biker dudes on these awesome bikes so I decided to join them. See my bike on the end??????
Check out this butterfly's wings!!!! Can you see what I see???? Wow, isn't that incredible!!!
You just never know what you will see when you go to the beach on Sunday for lunch!!! Isn't it cute!!!???
This is how our day began. By evening there was a huge trench dug away from our house and then a parallel one to the building. I was really upset!!! When they were using pick axes on the trench, the dirt was flying into our house!!!!!! Ok, enough!!! I let the man know and we just had a meeting. They are going to work tomorrow and the next day as we are going to be in Tequila and then all construction will cease until we leave on March 16th. I will let you know on just how well this goes...................................
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