I feel like I'm camping...

I suppose it's a good thing that I like camping, why you might ask...am I going on a camping trip in the Honduran wilderness?  Heck no!  I don't even need to leave the comfort of my little house to feel like I'm camping.  And why do I feel like this...let me count the ways.

Let me begin by talking about the bugs and creatures that I live with...there are the basic mosquitoes, the geckos, the crazy ants (yes, not just any ants, but crazy ants!), the occasional frog and cockroach...and lets not forget about the cat that tries to sneak in just about every afternoon.  I've become slightly obsessed with mosquito coils...you know the little green coils that you light on fire, it produces smoke and keeps the bugs away...I LOVE THEM!  Probably terrible to inhale that chemical filled smoke, but hey it keeps the bugs away!  I could probably go on about the critters all day long and have funny stories like when a gecko fell off my ceiling onto a visitor or the not so funny story of a gecko pooping on my laptop!

I also feel  like I'm camping when I'm washing my dishes...I fill up a little wash basin with water from the pila (the big cement sink) and use that water to wash my dishes...sometimes there flowers floating in it and sometimes a little sand at the bottom...and if it's a good day I pour a little bleach in to kill whatever little microbes I can't see...no I don't use bleach all the time and probably have a nice little friend growing in my intestines!  haha  That's what Albendazole is for right?  ;)  Anyway, there isn't hot water here, unless I heat it up on the stove, so I wash my dishes with just normal cold tap water...that's what makes it feel like camping.

Another feeling of camping is whenever I go outside I take my flip flops off before I come in the house...ok maybe some of you do that anyway, but it reminds me of camping.  You know when you take your shoes off before you go in the tent?

I feel like there were more similarities between my lifestyle and camping...and I'm sure there are but I'm a little tired and my brain isn't working so well.  You see, today is mother's day (HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM!  and all you other moms that might be reading this...) so what does me being tired and Mother's Day have in common?  Well...apparently a custom of Honduras is that people light firecrackers off at all hours of the night and go around serenading the mother's around town.  The firecrackers started before my head even hit the pillow...the loud serenading heard all throughout the town started about 3 AM...yes...AM!  And I think they finished up about 5?  I don't really know...but it was a long night of interrupted sleep.

UPDATE:  I was just walking from my bedroom to the livingroom and I stepped on a gecko.  :(  I noticed him around earlier...I think he was sick because he wasn't moving quickly like his friends.  Well I forgot about him and them squish.  How gross is that!?!?

I also remembered another..."I feel like camping" moment..it involves the shower.  I think it feels like camping because it's not a real shower...ok, lets not kid ourselves...it's not a shower.  It's a big bucket of water.  So I never actually really feel 100% clean...you know like when you're camping you just never feel squeaky clean...oh how I can't wait to take a shower when I get to the States!  :)