Someone is shaking my bed!

Somebody is shaking my bed!

This morning around 1:10 a.m., we awoke to a shaking house and doors rattling thanks to a 4.9 or so magnitude earthquake.  My poor mother-in-law who has dementia woke up screaming, "someone is shaking my bed!"  She often thinks there are ghosts or intruders in the house (despite that the house looks like Fort Knox at night).  This time, though instead of running to reassure her no one was inside the house, I had to try to explain it was earthquake.  I am not sure she really comprehended the explanation since it was her first earthquake, but she went back to sleep.  Meanwhile, I headed back to the bed where my hubby and dog were both sawing logs, oblivious to all the activity.  It was only when I landed next to hubby on the mattress on the floor that we are temporarily sleeping on until we move that he woke up and I explained what had happened.  I think he was disappointed he missed all the mayhem.  It was a pretty surreal experience to wake up and see the whole house moving and hear the door rattling!

A few hours later, my dad and I were headed back to the big city of San Jose to finish up our immigration paperwork.  We had to stop by the Canadian Embassy to obtain verification of his Canadian Pension.  The experience reminded me of someone visiting a loved one in prison since you have to go through a metal detector and then are brought into a small room with two chairs, a plexiglass window with a slot below it and a telephone.  You wait in the small room for someone to come and assist you.  A few minutes later, paper in hand we were off to the photo place to get his pictures.  We found the exterior gate, rang the bell to be let into a stairway down to a basement room where the photography studio consisted of a one man operation with his camera and desk.  Ten minutes later we were headed to the lawyer's office located in Casa Canada. We took care of a few other errands, including a quick pit stop at the Auto Mercado, or high end grocery store where I was elated to find my Panko bread crumbs which I use to mix with pecans to pan fry our sea bass.