Today was one of those interesting days... The regulator box that I mentioned in the first blog, the one that is supposed to keep our electric current normal-- yeah we smoked it. Apparently even devices that should be used to taking extreme voltage (260v+) give up. While I was trying to disconnect and reconnect the wires ever so delicately (kind of like playing that game operation in the dark), my watch touched the box and dang son, I felt it! To be honest with you it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but it did tingle for about 15 minutes afterward. We went without power for a while and then ended up getting a new box the next day.
For those of you who are wondering what Vanilla Ice had to do with our day, this is the deal-e-o. We always leave a lighter on the top of the Hammam (hot water cylinder/ wanna be water heater). I never thought twice about this habit until last night. I was sitting on the toilet studying my language note cards and all of the sudden, BOOM!!! I'm serious, it made me cower down a little bit. I thought it was a gun shot it was so loud. Stephanie came running out asking me if I was ok. That's when we realized that the heat had melted the lighter and ignited the butane in the lighter. We're still picking shrapnel out of the walls :)
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