Critters and our quest to kill them...

We have had lots of critters in our house these days. I thought I'd write about some of them.

We've had lots and lots and lots of mosquitoes in our new house. We've had all sorts of beetles and flying wasp bugs. We've seen mice (or rats... depending who you ask). And our kitchen is infested with cockroaches. I'm so sick of opening the silverware drawer and finding a cockroach staring up at me. This past weekend I had finally had it and just started spraying it with Raid. After about an hour it finally died and I was left with a whole drawer full of dirty silverware. Unfortunately that one cockroach was not the only one in our house and even though I wish I could single handedly kill them all I continue to see them occasionally.

A couple weeks ago we were headed to bed when I heard my roommate Molly yell, "there's a snake in my bathroom." I was so confused. How could there be a snake in your bathroom? Me and my other roommates went down to see what was happening. Sure enough a snake had crawled up the shower drain and was coiled in the corner.

As a house full of girls we started freaking out... just a little. Molly's bathroom is smaller than most closets with the shower practically hanging over the toilet. We threw around some ideas of what to do. Someone suggested we try and put a bucket on top of it. Not sure what the plan was after that but it sounded good to me. Other ideas were discussed, but the one that won was to turn the shower full blast on hot to shoo the snake back down the drain. Molly turned the shower on and quickly shut the door as to not let the snake escape into the house.

The four of us just stood on the other side of the bathroom door, listening to the water run, waiting til the right moment to see if the snake had disappeared. Finally it seemed like it had been long enough so we slowly opened the door to find that the snake was no longer where it had been. We looked around and saw nothing and begun congratulating ourselves on our genius idea when Jennie looked in and spotted the snake in the back corner behind the toilet.

With no other ideas and the snake now out of reach we called it a night and headed to bed. Molly carefully used the bathroom and went to bed. The next morning it was still there, so she went ahead and showered while the snake kept her company inside the small bathroom.

As we left for school that morning we decided we would let our house helper take care of the snake so we left a note saying "Ibu there is a snake in the bathroom. Help yourself!" :) I thought maybe she would want it. But that was not the case. She called Jennie at school as soon as she saw our message. She was freaking out and did not know what to do. We sent a friend's driver over to deal with it. He killed the snake and that was the end of that. He did inform us that that kind of snake is very poisonous. Next time we'll advise Molly not to shower with any snakes.