Terremoto!

We have experience our first major earthquake and have lived to tell about it!

The newspaer reported it as 5.3 on the Richter scale. According the our neighbors, the tremblo has to register above a 6 or destroy buildings for it to actually be considered an earthquake. The owner of our house claims that there was no damage yesterday becuase the earth moved back and forth sideways instead of up and down. Hmmm....comforting.

It lasted less than a minute and was unnerving and thrilling all at once.
It started with us looking at each other trying to detirmine if lunch wasn´t sitting well, or if there was a huge gust of wind or semi trucks rolling through the valley (becuase of the rumble noise)

With the realization that it was indeed an earthquake, we joined the other freeking inhabitants of our guest house into the courtyard . . . where it was safer?
I can only alike it to that junior high game when you spin around with your head on a bat and then try to run while your perception of the world shfits and sways and your legs feel all shakey
- or riding a boat over a waves caused by another boat (i think called a quake, yeah?)

with all the ruins in town, it was just a matter of time :)