Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Mosquitos

OK, the mosquitoes here are INSANE.  It isn't even tropical and yet we feel like we should be sleeping with a mosquito net.  We are well into Fall with fall like weather and still the mosquitoes seem to be alive and well and bothersome.  I honestly have never seen this many mosquitoes since staying on an island in the middle of Lake Victoria (Ssese Island) in the middle of hot and humid summer.  I had mosquito bites all over my body after just a few days and had scars on my forehead for years afterward. 
Benjamin tries his Kung Fu moves,
unsuccessfully, on the mosquitoes
Thankfully, the mosquitoes don't seem to be biting much anymore but every time you enter a room one is buzzing by your head or you spy 3 on the wall.  And the WORST is every night when you turn out the light one or two or three come zooming right by your ear with that high pitched, whining, motor like sound. nnnneeeeeeeee!!!
Every night Marty and Benjamin go on a mosquito hunt to try to get as many as possible.  They get about half but with the high ceilings the mosquitoes have outsmarted the boys and fly up high and out of reach.  The mosquito hunts are so frequent that anytime any one of us claps our hands the rest of us shout from the other room "did you get him?"  I'm assuming once it gets colder they will go away for good? 

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