Well that´s just what I get...

for saying that things here were pretty calm - not much to report except the chupacabras.

I was cleaning out one side of our closet the other day and noticed some interesting dirt, shall we say, on the wooden book shelves. Turns out we have termites and they are gross. Even though I was beyond my limit of grossness and whinning a lot about my clothes, some of which had tunnels in them, we only actually lost one book. The book, thankfully, was bought here and it will be easy to replace. My clothes are fine, just dirty and need to be washed.

The problem we then faced was how to tell the senores we have termites and what their solution might be. Luckily, they are wonderful people and had someone fumigate the very next day. We hungout outside for most of the morning and afternoon but were able to sleep in the apartment that night. Phew. They will come back to fumigate once more in a week but we think we are rid of the little buggers.

In good Paul and Melissa form, the books that were once on the shelf are now sprawled out everywhere across the room, which somehow (?) bothers me A LOT more than it bothers Paul. You don´t even want to know how many books he´s bought in a month.

Anyway, although it could have been terrible, our termite problem looks to be a thing of the past. Happy Day. I´m off to meet some chicas for coffee. They are studying English and so we are going to have an intercambio so to speak.

BTW a couple people were asking me how big the city of Merida is: I just read in the newspaper that there are 912,000 people in the city. So, it´s not small.

Melissa