My life in Haiti - Aug '04 to Feb '06

Friday, August 06, 2004

Early morning visitor


Isn't he just lovely! This was our friendly visitor back in the middle of June. He showed up beside our front door at 5:30am. Karen almost put her hand on him and boy did she scream. It was the first tarantula I had ever seen in Haiti. Then that same night, when I am all alone, I saw another one on the screen in my bathroom. Well, I have never gotten dried off and dressed so fast in my entire life! I went running down to the security since I thought it was on the inside of the screen but thankfully it was on the outside of the screen, stuck between the panes of glass and the screen as I had shut the window when I got in the shower (old fashioned Canadian maybe, but I like to keep my showers private, not on display to the entire yard!)