Wow. Just had possibly the worst night's sleep ever.
Last night was hilarious! Shortly after drifting off into a peaceful slumber, having finished yesterday's blog entry, everything went a bit wrong. Firstly, the construction of the huts meant that the slightest movement by Amy of the pyre people on our side of the hut set the whole floor into motion, which meant constantly being woken up every few minutes. Secondly, it turns out that bamboo flooring isn't quite as forgiving to lie on as a mattress. This, coupled with the world's slimmest pillow ment that your neck was permanently uncomfortable. However, these two factors were the east of our worries.
It started to rain. A full blown tropical thunder storm. Not a huge problem if your safely ticked away in a house or hotel, bit it turns out our bamboo dorm hadn't really been constructed with potential rain in mind. So along with the incredible lightning and thunder, Amber and I were not only treated to rain zipping through the late gaps in the side wall next to where we were sleeping, but also to rain coming directly through the thatched roof! Just what we needed to help us get some rest. Thankfully the girls shifted around to share nets so that we could move to a drier spot.
The fun didn't stop there. Shortly after we'd migrated to the other side of the dorm, there was a rather amusing incident involving a very large cave centipede, that had positioned itself between the mosquito nets of two of the girls we were on the tour with (Jo and Anna). This led to much panic and screaming on Jo's part and a flat refusal to get back under her mosquito net. I tried to help, but only succeeded in sending the creature scurrying round the back of the nets. The situation wasn't helped by Abba turning up to find out what all the commotion was about, only to then point out that at least it hadn't been a big wolf spider, like the one he then managed to spot on the roof of the dorm! Not particularly dangerous to humans, but you can imagine how the girls felt after that.
After a few minutes everyone settled back down to sleep, helped by Jo and Anna who insisted on playing a reassuring game of 'fortunately/unfortunately' between the two of them.
Sadly, the peace didn't last. Turns out the centipede hadn't finished it's campaign of terror and decided to do a lap or two on the inside of Jen and Rema's mozzie net. Cue yet more screaming. From the relative safety of our net, it was all pretty hilarious!
And so, for the third time we all tried to get some sleep with the rain storm continuing around us.
Fortunately, the rain abated eventually. Unfortunately...just as my ears had filtered out the buzz of the cicadas, another insect would start up and occupy my brain. This, coupled with the movement of the bamboo floor made for some very fitful sleep.
And then the chicks started creeping at 3am, followed by the roosters at 5am (still pitch black).
At 7:30am we gave up and got out of bed.
I have to admit, I've felt better.
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