A Forgotten Tale…

The house has been a little chaotic this week sense all of Encarna’s “kids” (the youngest is 22) are home for Semana Santa. What do you like to do when family comes in town? Eat! Therefore, I begin my story of our glorious family dinner. The whole family was in the kitchen and Sam and I were just finished up eating (Allison was still in Latvia) when suddenly Sam freaks out and stands on her chair. I look at here and ask, “Seriously Sam, what are you doing?” The only word that could come out of her mouth was “bicho” a.k.a bug. Apparently Sam “saw” a large cockroach on the floor that had now scurried under the table and she was in shock. The girls fled the room, which only left Juan Antonio (Fatima’s boyfriend) to search the kitchen. He threw on his superman cape and started the search. Picture this: four girls screeching from the hallway (in English and Spanish), Sam frantically hopping down from being paralyzed on her chair, and Juan Antonio throwing chairs across the kitchen. After a few moments Rocio came to play the role of Robin and together their team…was stoppable. They found absolutely nothing. When Sam finally came back into the kitchen she was immediately standing on top of her chair again and refused to come down. Therefore, I thought that this would be the perfect time for my dance interlude with the Spanish song, “La cucaracha.” Ironic, because Encarna knew the song as well and started singing along. “La cucaracha, la cucaracha ya no puede caminar…” (It’s a Spanish song about a cockroach.) It was a sight to be seen. I think we almost made Sam cry…it was probably the part when I told her that the cockroach was in her bed and that’s why we couldn’t find it…yeah that probably wasn’t the best, but it was funny so it worked. Afterwards we all started talking about bugs in general and I told Fatima the story of when I had found the lizard in the bathroom. Rocio started laughing and said that she had seen a lizard in there too, this of course she had failed to tell me before, and proceeded to insist that the lizard lived in the bathroom. How glorious! I asked Rocio what color her lizard was and her answer was green. If she were playing the matching game, she would have failed because my lizard was orange and those colors just don’t match up. Unless our lizard is a chameleon then we are talking about a different prehistoric creature…which now that I think about it, I don’t know if I like that idea. I think I would rather settle for one lizard rather then a plethora of lizards. To end the escapade Encarna then pointed out once more that lizards eat bugs, therefore we would be fine with the “cucaracha” problem and that Sam could come down off of her chair. Although, Sam was not convinced and seemed to think that her cockroach could take my lizard down any day. I’d like to challenge her to a dual, but then again I’d rather not see either creature ever again.