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The weekend at the Beach House

The beach house weekend went just like this;

We arrived around 5pm, watched the sunset after we got settled in and took one last final picture with all 19 of us. We said our goodbyes to Sandy and sent her on her way. It was weird to have the leader of our group change but we were all excited for the weekend ahead. Sandy and I got to talk about my first day teaching in my classroom which was good and made me feel better about continuing with what I am doing with those 40 3^rd graders.

Friday night was uneventful; we had a lot of fun hanging out on the balcony deck with all our friends. Sean got to see the more loud side of us, and more crazy side of us which Sandy did not see as much. It was a great first night with Sean. We woke to some sun on Saturday which quickly went away but that did not stop anyone from dancing, singing, reading and hanging out on the beach. There was a lot of reading going on, and right around 2pm the real interesting stuff began.

I was sitting in the living room reading The Hunger Games, and Sean was talking to a group about baboons that we had seen so far, before I knew it there was one climbing in the window. There are no screens on the windows and most of the windows have baboon guards on them except one in the living room that we had open to get air. No one knew what to do; we were all running all over the place. Sean started screaming to make it afraid but that didn’t work as it started to climb into the house. I was screaming so loud and so high pitched that my friends downstairs thought we were in major trouble and hid in their room. Eventually he was sitting right in the furniture and at that point I thought we were doomed. The boys ran into the rooms which left Becca and I in the living room so we started outside. When the boys came back out of the room they had a plan to scare it away, Sean was telling Jeremy to take the mop and run up to it because you know Sean needed to make sure to get this all in pictures. That didn’t work, the garbage bin throwing didn’t work but Kayla came running downstairs with a 2x4, and scared it away and out of the house. Quickly we closed all the windows and we hoped that he would be the only baboon we would have to deal with.

Saturday night came and went, it was chilly out so we all relaxed inside playing a lot of Euchre. Sunday morning we woke up to rain and very high winds. More cards and reading was taking place and everyone just took the weather as it was. Eventually it cleared up and we were able to explore the beach some more. Right after lunch a couple of my friends came running over the dune screaming that there were baboons on the beach. So what do we all do? Run out to check it out of course. The big one that had climbed into the house yesterday was there leading the pack, and as the rest of the group ran up the sand dune they followed; 15 in all! At this point we were all standing at the top of the dune, and Sean was on the balcony watching us. If only he had his camera to video what happened next. All 10 or so of us started down the hill screaming as the baboons followed us. We made it, another baboon encounter but we were good. This had to be the end of it.

Not long after the baboons left, some headed back outside with lunch to the beach and 3 to the deck balcony. Lizzie and I had just laid down for a nap when we heard, “They’re back!” Uh-oh. Looking over the loft I could see all 15 of the coming around the porch. At this point the 3 friends that were on the balcony were screaming, we were trying to get them away from the house but the big one thought going up would be better. Now our 3 friends were stuck on the balcony, with food. They were smart enough to throw the food over the balcony and then some brave souls downstairs went out to scare them off the balcony so our friends could come down. That worked and quickly they went to the roof. Good we’re free. Nope.

They would not leave the porch area. Our friends that were on the beach came over the dune and saw all of this happening. Since they couldn’t come back into the house they took a seat on the dune and watched this all happen. We ended up calling security since they were not leaving, and after 15 minutes of waiting we were done. We just wanted to enjoy our last couple hours at the beach house.

All in all it was a baboon filled weekend. But it was also a very relaxing weekend for everyone.