Here's a picture I took a few weeks back that sums up some of the contradictions Mr. Rainbolt talks about in his blog. So in this picture, you will see a man in a Nigerian suit, changing a tire on a brand new Mercedes Benz, in the rain and mud, but he's taken it upon himself to put out a reflective triangle just in case we didn't see him in his bright white suit, and then to top it all off the smiley face air freshener there to remind us to be happy. I'm sitting here on our couch right now, listening to Kara sing along with Smitty (Michael W. Smith). I have my headphones on listening to NFL Field Pass on NFL.com, watching Yahoo Stattracker to see how my fantasy football team is doing, and I'm happy as a clam. For the record, I can hear Kara singing overtop of the football game I'm listening to and through the thick headphones I'm listening to the game on; I would venture to say she's happy as a clam as well.
It hasn't been raining as much recently, although we had an amazing lighning storm the other day (See Carrie's blog for some of the pictureI took)
So we hired a driver today. His name is Sunday, and he's probably one of the kindest Nigerians we've met thus far. He's very respectful and ready to drive our car (I know, pictures are on the way don't worry). Anyways, he starts work on December 1st and comes highly recommended by his current employer who is leaving Nigeria at the end of this month.
Tonight, we went over to the Rainbolt's and had some Thai food with them and as always, thoroughly enjoyed being with them. Jacob's hair is growing pretty long and he claims he will let it grow down to his shoulders. Emily was talking to a good friend of hers from Tacoma on Skype when we got there. Which brings me to my next point.
How great is Skype? I can't imagine living in Lagos, Nigeria without it. If you haven't moved into the Skype world yet, you're missing out on free Worldwide long distance and of course, missing out on good conversation with The Slaters (thesl8ers is our Skype name so if you don't have it yet, download the program, go to Best Buy, and purchase a cheap headset for 15 bucks, 1800 Naira, and get to Skypin'.)
I'm getting pretty good at Tennis. Mr. Rainbolt and I had a pretty rough week on the practice courts though. He hurt his calf and I sprained my ankle the next day at my lesson. My ankle's healing fine and I was out there yesterday practicing my serve...and sneezing every 4 minutes or so. Rainbolt is recovering nicely and is listed as Probable on this week's AISL Tennis injury report.
Why have I been sneezing so much? Harmattan is here...sorta. There is a haze that has begun forming over the VI Skyline that initially looked like fog, but turned out to be the Sahara desert. That's right, we're several hundred miles south of the desert, but the duststorms are kicking up the sand high into the atmosphere and carrying it down here to us and then dropping it. I've been sneezing ever since. I guess it gets really bad in December reducing visibility to a few feet.
My team is getting stomped in Fantasy Football right now as we speak, Carson Palmer is having a field day against San Diego and Ladanian Tomlinson has scored 4 touchdowns (both guys play on the guy I'm playing's team)...sorry for the distraction, but it is relevant because we'll be coming home in a month and a few days (I'm not keeping track...seriously, because I want my days to go fast and if I start counting minutes, the school days will drag on). Anyways, we will be going to the Seahawks game against San Diego on Christmas Eve and their defense isn't looking as good as it did earlier this season so it should be a fun game for us and the Hawks better win.
Kara is still singing. She's been at it for about 2 hours now...and I love it. Our cockroach kill total is probably in the 30's now. We have this great Cockroach killer spray called Mortein that is like anthrax for Cockroaches. The other day I played a killer narrator as I spotted a cockroach on the kitchen floor (Not related to Mefloquine I promise). I grabbed the Mortein and broke out my best Slay-Torr Judgement Day voice and wreaked havoc on our kitchen floor and all bugs within a 15 foot radius. After I killed Roachman, Slay-Torr's Arch Nemesis, The Ant News (K-ANT News) showed up to document the carnage and got caught in the melee as well. When all was said and done, Slay-Torr had wreaked enough havoc in Flat 11 to make the scene war-like in appearance (As I was writing that, I saw myself in slow-motion for some reason so I hope as you read it you saw the slow-motion effect as well). I stood amongst the haze, hands on my waist looking into the sky like Mel Gibson in The Patriot when all was said and done. All I needed was a flag and my victory would have been complete.
We ate lasagna for dinner this weekend. They don't have cottage or ricotta cheese here, so it's not as good as the lasagna from home. We'll make up for it when we go to Italy on our field trip this March I'm sure.
Well I think I've rambled enough. I thought about themes for this blog but I decided we didn't really have a good ramble blog yet so I've satisfied that! We hope you are all doing well and please Skype us! Talk to you soon!
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