Turquoise Dreams

Tuesday 8/12/4

Last night bed at 11:15pm - 5:45 am

Alarm woke me up right when my brother was explaining to me how he broke my phone...

We are sitting on a bus, still parked outside of our place. Portugese police came to arrest us. Me, my brother, mom and dad, and I think others. It's not a police for criminals, but more like political police, for opposition and stuff.

We are in large upstairs room, when we hear an explosion. Someone grabbs binoculars to look at the perimeter of the city. Some soldiers were there protecting the town from rebels, or vice versa. We are wondering if this is a sign that they are coming for us. A military jeep full of people drives by quickly and we think they will pass us, but they stop and then few more military vehicles stop in front of us and they turn sideways to block the road.

So we know they would be coming and when I hear many footsteps coming upstairs, I take off my black work uniform pants and start looking for my jeans I had on earlier. Many people walk in and they tell us we have to go with them. I ask if I can get dressed and feed the cats and stuff and they say yes. They are keeping an eye on us while they let us finish up. I can't find the jeans I had on recently, but find another pair.

I fill the food bowl with cat food and have my brother give them more water.

They are taking our computers and we are half-jokingly taking with them. Telling them what cables they will need for them, and how I'm not gonna remember the password for my old computer. We are joking with them, but I know it's serious, and the gonna make me remember the password one way or the other.

I'm still looking for more things to take with me, but they finally usher us outside. There are two buses. Outside of the one on the left are dozens of cardboard boxes with our things in them. I joke that next time we move, we should hire them, because they did it so fast.

We get on the bus on the right side. Bus is full of us and agents. We are still not going anywhere. Not sure what we waiting for. A huge moth flies in and starts fluttering on my brothers shirt. It's so big, we all think it's a small bird. I pick it up and marvel about it. I show it to the agents and I'm so upset that I don't have my camera. I ask them I could get it, but they are amuzed that I still don't get how much trouble I'm in and what they gonna do to me.

So I ask them to take my picture with this moth. I tell them a friend of mine found a 5 inch long caterpillar called Hook Worm and these moth are from it. (Ophelia talked about these and linked pic to it, she has them oh=n her tomatoes).

I ask two young agents for a pic, but they don't do it. I tell them I love takeing pictures in other countries on bus rides, but they are thinking "well, you not exactly on a tour bus, are you".

A woman agent gets on and starts checking me with handheld metal detector. My teeth beep slightly and I tell her I have screws there, so they don't try and find out what it is : (. I have a feeling they will maybe anyway, but now they don't worry about it too much.

I tell them I have a friend in Portugal on the forum, but I don't remember his name. And also in Spain, but don't remember name as well.

My brother hands me my red phone and I ask him why is the back part of the case peeling off and he starts explaining whey alarm wakes me up.