Shannon Costello

I ended up sitting next to a couple from the Reformed Christian Church.  We talked all the way here, which was good because we sat on the tarmac a LONG time because of the thunderstorms in Atlanta. 

My hotel room is scrupulously clean and quite nice, but when I went to pull the curtains shut I saw that there was a cockroach as big as my thumb sitting on the curtains.  I haven´t seen one that big since I was in the Baltimore Aquarium and saw a hissing Madagascar cockroach.  And it reminded me of Mexico. 

Once in Mexico I was talking to Dina, the night I turned on the light to discover a scorpion on the ceiling above my bed.  I wailed about what I should do and Dina started quoting from Psalms….´me acostaré y descansaré en paz´…I will lie down and sleep in peace.  I was looking for that verse this morning, but I only brought a Spanish Bible so it is harder to find.  I´ll have to google it when I finish this. 

Anyway, that was a good verse to have in mind last night. 

This time zone is 2 hours earlier so i woke up early.  Some of the birds sound relatively normal, but I heard lots of intriguing parrot-like squawks.