Mexico part 2
So the house in Cuernavaca was kinda baller in a slightly decrepit way ^^
View from my bedroom's balcony! 5.5
We Air BnB'd this place that totally struck me like a party house in Miami Vice that was starting to lose its lustre or something ^^ spacious and luxurious on first glance, with a courtyard pool, jacuzzi, foosball table and other awesome stuff, but without solid foundation work, moderization or safety standards/etc (and stuff like shitty water pressure/no hot water after 9), and nicely immersed with nature, like random blood-curdling bugs walking about (more later). I'm not saying I didn't thoroughly enjoy it! It was really cool and random, a whole bunch of bedrooms with slightly different themes (the master bedroom had this weird Bacchanalian bathtub with columns XD), a separate bungalow with more bedrooms (R's sister's room had dressers/cabinets with carved dollhouse exterior details on them and stuff! But I was too busy dying that first night to get a pic ^^;;)
Our bedroom - pretty sweet, until THE HORROR COMETH
We ended up taking the room right by the entrance (nice space/storage, cohesive decor, private balcony, lots of bird/cricketsong), so I wouldn't have to go up and down the entrance stairs as much, and it was quite cute ^^ First night in Cuernavaca (where we'd spent the day in D.F.) was the least breathe-y, so while everyone else went to the pre-wedding family party at the other house (their family rented 2 - at least 15 people were involved, though I was never sure who was sleeping where :P) I sobbed and struggled a bit till I could get calmed down ^^;; then showered and rested and tried to sleep, with poor R trying to take care of me but not really knowing what to do. Apparently I missed R's cousin drunkenly singing :P Made it through the night and was ready to put on a brave face for the wedding!
I only got one super blurry pic of it, but the next night, at like 3-4 in the morning (after the wedding, but I'll try to keep this organized) we're in the room decompressing, undressing, etc. when R goes "uh...stay on the bed..." and there is a GIGANTIC WHIP SCORPION on the floor coming towards me. Okay, it was probably average size and they're not that bad. But it was new to us at the time, I still couldn't really breathe, and I just didn't have the mental energy to deal with such a thing, so I was reduced to going and squeaking for help to R's dad, aunts and cousins, and then coughing and cowering as a crowd gathered up in our room and they trapped the hapless little guy under a glass and threw it outside. Even though they hadn't squished it or anything it was still there in the momrning, dead for some reason ;_; sorry mang, I didn't mean for that to happen! Apparently it's a vinegaroon, which squirts vinegar at you that blinds you, and indeed, once they started going after it it did start to smell like vinegar in there ;_;
So yeah, accidentally caused a death by being scared out of my gourd. ^^;; Goodness knows what would have happened if it had been a house centipede or an amblypygid. I'm gonna guess heart attack. I love bugs, really I do, but I need to view them in a controlled setting ^^;; Apparently R saw a roach in our bathroom later but chose not to tell me about it. Good on him!
That basically concludes the nature/adventure portion of my trip :P Although outside the house there was a cute stray doggie in the daytime - it lay in the shade of a nearby gate and was still there after a good few hours, so we went to get some water for it and put it in a little dish for him, whereupon he promptly walked away. That had been our last potable water too :P