day 5: as pererecas ecas (yucky frogs)

15-7-09

Another relaxing day out here on the farm....I got to learn how to ride a motorcycle today! It had a clutch and everything! I might want one of these one day.....Starting it was tricky but once I got it running, no holding me back. I switched it up all the way to 4th gear (or third I’m not sure) and raced down the runway out front. A few laps later I figured I should probably head back so, tongue-out, and seriously focused on not sliding out on the sand...I made my back into the yard....and the thing started spitting gas all over my legs! Great! I lost the freakin’ gas cap and I smelled like Jiffy Lube tech now. I stopped the motorcycle, jimmied up the landing gear thingy and went off to look for the cap.

Shit...(I thought) where the hell is it?!?! How far could it have been? After what felt like an eternity (but was probably only ten or so minutes) the grandpa was cruising by with one of the girls on his lap. Ughhh....I really didn’t want to admit I lost it. I’m already breaking all the rules out here. He keeps letting me slide, but of course, the things I do out here...aka climb the waterfalls, walk along the outside of the swimming hole...and sitting in his seat at the lunch table!...are forbidden with all the grandkids. (whoops!)

But, to my incredible luck, I nearly tripped over the damn thing that very moment. Wow. I was probably thirty meters away from the entrance to the yard...and I had gone up and down that 900m runway around three or four times already....full speed on that thing. (Later the next day, one of the cousins lost it again...i guess its loose).

I strolled along that same area later this evening to enjoy the nightly show (sunset), but this time with the baby, Olivia. Today has been a good day with her...or maybe its the empty whiskey shooter she has in her hand that seems to fascinater her. That’s my girl, huh? She keeps trying to drink from it, although it never had...and never will have....that poison she seems to want so badly in it. : )

Part 2: As pererecas ecas (yucky frogs)

Tonight me and Alexandra attacked the bathroom critters as usual. I take care of the pererecas (frogs)and she...the spiders and cochroaches. Tonight’s episode was eventful. Three pererecas were hopping around. Although they play a good game of hide and seek normally, tonight, they got creative on me. They were tag teaming me, using escape tactics such as jumping at my face (simultaneously spitting some sort of liquid or discharge at my face.....which hit my forehead....NOT COOL), and closing the night out with a game of Twister. Yup. Me, on my hands and knees cupping one against the wall with my right hand, left hand on the drain. When one escapes, we turn the wheel and see how twisted I can get on the bathroom floor. They’re just lucky I don’t have it in me to kill them. I just throw them outside. Actually, I’m probably playing this stupid game every night with the same damn frogs come to think of it. But, in the end.........I win. ; ) Shortly after, I’ll send Alexandra in to come kill the creepy (and fast moving) spider I’ve had my eye on all the while. Those just have to go if I’m going to sleep at night. Luckily, she’s heartless with them and squashes them on sight. Good work. ; )

9pm. Time for bed......Yup. 9. I don’t believe it either. But if you were expecting a little 4 year old to come crawl into your bed in the am asking to hear the barbie girl song on you ipod (just one more time!!), then you’d be in bed early too!

Boa noite. *beijos*