Lizard.
I have been dreading the moment that an Australian critter makes its way into our house. Thankfully our first visitor wasn’t of the “I am nearly invisible but can kill you with one small bite” family. Instead he was of the “I am lightning fast and can change color to match my surroundings” family. The lizards that we love to watch play on the patio ceiling at dinner time thought that Lily’s room was way more fun. It was hard to see him because he was nearly white on the walls, and turned to the gray/taupe color of the carpet. So fast!! Jay never ceases to amaze me and won the “Hero of the Year” award because he caught the lizard in a towel and then threw it off the balcony onto the patio roof. When he landed, he literally ditched his tail and took off, leaving the tail wiggling around. There are so many great sayings that can come from this – would love to hear your versions… “I was so scared I crapped my tail.” “That scared the tail right off of me!” “Son, let me tell you a TAIL about the time I nearly died.” I could go on for hours… (Jay didn’t think my comments were funny, so I won’t be disappointed if you don’t laugh. I, however, was cracking myself up writing it.)
I am going to tell myself that he snuck in last night when we had the door open to catch the nice warm breeze. This is way better than thinking that he snuck in some other way…and has a family in our walls or something.
This picture is not a stick… Ewwwww!!

Kayak.
Every so often I see people kayaking down our canal. I think it looks so peaceful and would be a great form of exercise and “me” time. Jay was OK with letting me look for one. He even started to do some searching, until he found out that the bull sharks can and have attacked people in kayaks. What?!?!? Apparently in a kayak you are too close to the water… These bull sharks are not very big in comparison to other sharks, but they are mean, aggressive, and some of the “man eaters” (longer than 2 meters) just like the taste of humans. Short man syndrome? They estimate that there are over 600 man eaters in the canals along the Gold Coast. This is the last you will hear about my search for a kayak…