Welcome to the Jungle

Friday, February 26, 2010

Road Trip

While most of the expat community was on the school soccer field playing Ultimate Frisbee some of the macaques decided to take a little test drive in one of the vehicles parked in front of our house. Apparently you should not leave potato chips in your car with the windows down. Kathi noticed the monkeys when she heard some continuous honking of a car horn. After seeing what was going on she went in to call pest control and then came out to take some pictures. Evidently there was at least 6 in there at one point. Check out the one on the dash. Before pest control was able to get there the owner came out, opened a door and yelled for them to get out. They must be bilingual because they obeyed. Only in the jungle.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Final Snake Identification

"Spike" as my kindergartners call him has been identified as a Monacle Cobra. Thanks to Mr. Anderson.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Singapore Anyone?

Today Kathi almost got the ride of her life thanks to a spitting cobra. As Kathi was entering her classroom from her outside entrance she literally almost stepped on a three to four foot spitting cobra that was passing in front of her at the base of the door. She had her foot suspended above it when she realized that it was there. If she would not have caught it out of the corner of her eye and actually stepped on it, she and I would've been on our way to Singapore aboard the medical flight. We are ready for a break from camp but I think we will wait until Spring Break!

The picture here is one from the internet. Kathi just knew it was a snake but once the science teacher came down to wrangle it he became agitated and began striking and spitting in his general direction. Our science teacher thought that discretion is the better part of valor so we called camp pest control. Unfortunately by the time they showed up the snake was gone and we were unable to get any pictures. Maybe next time. Indonesia is so exciting!