After four days home I am still majorly suffering from extreme jet lag. I have been lying awake in bed from around 2am until 4-5am wide awake. So last night I decided I had enough of these sleepless nights I was going to get some rest! I took 2 Tylenol PMs with the intent of getting a good nights rest. And headed off to bed. Quickly I was asleep, peacefully.
Until around 1:30am, I hear Josh…”Sarah, WAKE UP!” Seriously…I am sleeping! What could be so important at 1:30am that I need to wake up from this peaceful sleep?!?
But, of course I get up. “What is it?” I asked Josh. “A snake!” He replied. “In the house”.
Yes, a snake in our house…Ahhhh….super disturbing! I rush downstairs to see a black and yellow striped snake moving from the bathroom to the laundry room. Josh is trying to corner it with a broom before it moves into the laundry room. I run to get a large tupperware bowl to trap it in(All I could think of). The snake is about 2 feet long.
As I return the snake wiggles past the broom and headed into the laundry room, right behind the washing machine…now what? We can’t possible sleep knowing there is a snake chilling in the house! Especially, since we have no clue what kind of snake it is!
So we roll up a towel, close the door, and stuff the towel under the door to trap it inside until we figure out what the HECK to do! So, we head to the computer to find out if it is poisonous. We quickly find he might be a king snake. Which is harmless to humans. So I tell Josh…”I’m going back to bed, We will get it in the morning!” Josh says, “Yeah right…I am not sleeping knowing their is a snake in our house, the girls will freak if they know!”
So, he wanders into the garage and finds a hoe to “scoop” the snake out of the back of the washer. Next thing I know I am hearing this banging noise and I head over to find out if he caught it. Nope, he killed it instead! Ahhhhh….I had no idea my husband of almost 9 years had that in him! The snake is lying in the center of the laundry room floor bloody and dead! I screamed and yelled at Josh…it was digusting! I could not believe he did that. I had intentions of letting it go free in the field! He said, “It was only going to come back! So, I had to kill it. It was my first reaction!” Turns out as he opened the door to see if it had move it was just chilling in the center of the room. So his instincts kicked in and he felt threatened and did the poor little guy in! I am going to have bad dreams about snakes for many many nights to come!
Josh said he was only trying to protect the kids from knowing there was a snake in our house. They would have sleep issues for years too! They already freak when there is a spider in their rooms! Let alone a scary looking snake! So, please DO NOT speak of this occurrence in front of them!
I was done with the snake mess and headed back to bed to try and get some more sleep! Hopefully, no more snakes think our house is a good place to visit in the future!
After our tour we headed back to the hotel to shower and relax. The nine of us then headed to a wonderful dinner…
I know it is a little fuzzy!
We thought after the wagon ride: “What did we get ourselves into? This is going to be a hokey tour!” Complete with a he/she guide!
Folowing the wagon ride we headed off to the river for a canoe ride!
My turn:
Of course it started to rain a little so I left my camera with Niki. When a portion of us were out on the river it REALLY started to pour! So all of us except Matt and Niki got soaked!
This storm was INSANE! We had so much fun! We were all laughing and smiling and enjoying the fun!
Mom and I also shared fresh fish…
By this time I was overtaken by sickness and I could not do anything but focus on getting off of the boat! We arrived on Phi Phi island for lunch and a sickness break! This island was wiped out by the tsunami in 2004. It now show many signs of rebuilding from the disaster.
Following this we headed to Khai Nai Island. A small island with basically nothing but beach and a drink/snack stand. This was a nice relaxing Island. We completed the day with dinner and SLEEP!
It was pretty funny…both of the boys stopped eating their chicken heads immediately.
