Victory is ours!!!

So we did it. Hallye and I killed the spider that was terrorizing her for the past week. We walked into our room today and I saw the creature next to my pack. I said ¨there´s the (expletive) spider!¨Then I offered my shoe to Hallye to let her have the last word with her mortal enemy but she gracefully declined and said the finder should be the killer. Actually she screamed and said ¨NOOOOO YOU DO IT¨. I bravely took matters into my own hands and approached the massive beast with determination. Actually, I walked up really hesitantly and barely made contact because I didn´t want to get too close to it for fear it would be one of those crazy jumping spiders. But Luckily my sturdy trail runner closed the deal and the thing shriveled up on the floor. Then we called upstairs to our Haitian friend Willy to come down and pick it up to throw it away. He entered the room and I pointed to the dead body. Willy walked over to where I pointed but didn´t do anything. He turned around and said ¨I don´t see anything¨. I had to go over and point right to it. ¨Oh..¨he said in his very broken english. ¨From de way you scream I tink it is big spider¨. Luckily, now Hallye can sleep in peace.

Bye the way...in two weeks we are planning our trip to the Amazon. I hear there is some pretty interesting wildlife there, including but not limited to: monkeys, ants, anacondas, beetles, snakes, and some really huge, hairy, nasty killer spiders.
-Katie