If you thought Bees were bad....

Okay, so apparently March is SNAKE month in South Africa. There are several posionous snakes in the region of South Africa where we live. All week we have been hearing about the boys killing snakes...in the fields, in an office....and tonight....in our house.

Let me tell you the story....I was sitting in my room, spending some God time when one of my roommates came running in and screamed..."there is a snake in the house!" We immediately called Josh who brought a gun down to get it.

When he got here, we couldn't find the SNAKE! YIKES! So, as Britt described it, Josh decided it was a Rinkhal Cobra. We looked around for it in the kitchen and the house and couldn't find it. As we were sitting there talking, we heard hissing and Josh saw a little head sticking out, so he speared it.

But Josh just couldn't get the snake and it hid behind the cupboard. Josh made one small hole on the other side and poked at him a little bit and he got away and hid.

So we went about our business...ate dinner, chatted...all the while trying not to think about the ugly posinous snake in our house.

We were going to go to the other girls house, so we put flour outside of both holes so that we could see if he moved. We ended up back pretty quickly...and there was no change in the flour. So we were about to watch a movie and I heard a hiss...so I looked over in the kitchen and there it was.

Kelly grabed the gun and was about to shot it when we called Josh who told her to get really close to the head. Did I mention that this snake spits poison and is poisionous....you know like a Cobra? So she said...uh.."NO"..."come now". So our heros (Josh squared) showed up and killed the snake. Josh took a shot, Reba took a shot and then they picked it up at the neck and cut the head off....

Now, I can sleep!