The Cake and the Rat

We've been back in Colombia for just little over a week, and life here started out with a bang!  For as many years as we've been here (over ten years), you would think nothing would surprise me!  But that's not the case...

Last Thursday, a pastor's wife/friend of ours helped us purchase cakes for the Bible school graduation.  The cake, "torta negra" ("black cake") is a very popular cake here, especially for celebrations.  The best way I can describe it is Christmas fruitcake.  Though, as its name implies, it is black; it is made with figs, raisins, and I'm not sure what else.  As the woman at the bakery told us, "You can save these for a month and a half and they will still be fresh!"  It is NOT our favorite cake, but that's another story...

Early Friday morning, we moved the cakes to the center of the table where they were sitting, so that our Beagle, Cocoa (who'd just been delivered to us after seventeen months of our absence), wouldn't eat them.  When we moved them, we discovered lots of crumbs across the table and on a nearby chair, but more importantly a huge chunk missing out of the corner of one of the cakes.

We expected a critter of some sort had a feast during the night.  Oh, well...

Fast forward to Monday morning, the day of graduation.  Kevin opened the closet in the studio office to get the video cameras out and ready for videotaping of the event later that evening.  When he opened the door, he was shocked to find the stash of cake chunks (and other bits of evidence) that the culprit -- a rat -- had hidden away, probably for his own celebration!

All I can say, is I'm glad we've been living UPSTAIRS and the rat hasn't yet found the stairs!

Rat poison was purchased.  So far, we've not seen any further evidence.  Let's hope it stays that way!

Have a great day!