Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Terremotos...Earthquakes

So I'd never been in an earthquake until I moved to Costa Rica. The first one I experienced was a few weeks after I arrived, and I was in the upstairs part of a cabana at my in-laws house...no, the upstairs part of a cabana is not stable. So I was lying in the bed and it started shaking. I thought my husband had snuck upstairs and was shaking the bed trying to scare me...which is why I yelled out, "Stop shaking the bed!" Then I heard my husband come RUNNING up the stairs yelling, "Are you ok?! Are you ok!! It was a terremoto!!" I said, "Who is Terry Moto?" When my husband was able to stop laughing and breathe again he said, "Terremoto means earthquake, not Terry Moto." Earthquake number two happened a few weeks after that. I was standing in the living room at my in-law's house (again) and I was standing up looking down at a table, and the table started shaking. A few seconds later it stopped and I heard a BLOODY MURDER SCREAM from outside. It was like nothing I have ever heard in my entire LIFE. So I ran outside because I thought someone was hurt from of the earthquake... and heard chanting and yelling and crying coming from the neighbor's house...and more screaming. All the lights were off at their house so I ran back inside my in-law's to look for a flashlight. That's when I ran into my father-in-law, who asked me what I was searching for. I told him I needed a flashlight because I thought the neighbors were hurt... That's when he informed me that no one was hurt, they were just performing an exorcism. Yes, hola Emily Rose! That night I slept with my eyes open and my bilingual Bible...I wasn't sure if the demons would speak Spanish or English. Earthquake number three happened this morning. I came home from working the night shift and got in the bed, and a few hours later my body shook..and then shook again...and then shook again. I woke up my husband and yelled, "TERRY MOTO!!" Actually it wasn't an earthquake...my German Shepperd had gotten up in the bed and was lying on her side with her back against my back... and she had the hiccups.