Large bellies and uninvited guests

Katherine and Buddha again. For comparison, here they are on July 14.

Tonight we went out for a last night in Vientiane dinner at L'Opera. About a half hour after we got home, I heard Katherine scream from the living room. I went in to investigate, and Jak(e) was staring down this guy near our shoe rack.

Thank god, too, because scorpions have a habit of setting up house in shoes, then reacting angrily when a foot is inserted.

A mighty battle ensued, the scorpion bearing claws and that nasty stinger on its tail, me armed with a broom and dustpan.

I won.

The scorpion was unceremoniously carried outside, where our guard pronounced it dangerous and decided to de-stinger it before I flung it into the garden.