Island Fever

The island has been wearing on Sara and I recently. We haven't been off-island since October. With (relative) stress at work ramping up with trials for both Sara and I pending for next week, we've been feeling the need to get away from paradise.

Late last week, Sara took the initiative and got us tickets to (Western) Samoa, to the island of Savai'i. It is a large, minimally populated island. We're eager to get there.

Especially after the last few days. We sweated our way through another hot, humid few days. Last night, Sara found a mass of fire ants battling with termites in one of our extra bedrooms. After spraying the bugs and only getting a few bites, we were able to fight back the invaders.

This morning, we cleaned and ran some errands. I spent the morning trying to figure out what the ghastly smell in our bedroom was. After cleaning my dresser, closet and bedroom, I started to clear the rugs to our deck, only to find the source of the stink, a rotting rat corpse. It was well along its way to decomposition. After pulling the dead rat from between the deck boards with a long handle garden hoe and hosing off the maggots I was able to chase the stink from our bedroom, with only the slightest amount of dry-heaving.

The rest of Saturday was spent cleaning, on errands and watching a sevens rugby tournament. Yeah, I'm ready to get off-island too. Can't wait until Thursday.