I finally heard from my parents!
I know a long time's passed since my last (read: first) entry but there's a lot going on out there.
First thing's first: Amy, my gf came home safely the one day. I think I was just over worried but that's what I tend to do. I think what freaks me out more when it comes to Amy is that she works at a clinical trials center for all sorts of diseases. Some of the test subjects (yeah, human ones) aren't cut from the best cloth out there. Plus all those diseases and whatnot. She tells me she's safe and all is well there and that I don't have anything to worry but hey, what do I know? If you asked me, I'd say she worked in a giant lab with bunsen burners and beakers all over the place. Apparently, that's not the case.
Back to my folks, remember the touristy areas being attacked by all those crazy people? Well, the local law enforcement (LE) had enough so they came out with their big guns, literally. Anybody they saw, they pointed at and tried to arrest and detain. According to my dad, they'd point the guns but the freaking crazies would keep running at them trying to get their guns away. Some of the cops would naturally shoot at them and that just seemed to get people more angrier. He "borrowed" a truck that he saw was in pretty good condition and drove straight to Salamanca with my mom. They stopped for gas here and there and apparently news of the crazy folks over in Baja and such was starting to reach inland. He heard there were crowds of angry mobs in Mexico City too but that might have been another swine flu scare. At least, that's what the radio stations were saying.
He told me that most of my family in Mexico were safe. He assured me that the rest would be safe too but he was thinking he'd stay there for a week more and then drive back home. He was hoping to skip Baja and either drive in through Texas. My mom was happy to be seeing her family and he was just happy to be away from the big cities. Relatively speaking, Salamanca was a smaller town not without its modern day amenities (there was a KFC and a Pizza Hut there fer cryin' out loud) but it still had its small town charm. Mexican small town charm that is.
Hey! Remember the South Korean boat that the North Koreans sunk? Maybe from a few months ago. Well...according to this one blog I read at work, there were reports coming in saying that the SK ship had encountered NK troops trying to board the ship! The reports claim that SK troops saw NK troops swimming nearby, warned them and then threw out life rafts for them. The people in the water were savagely attempting to get onto the ship and so a gunfight broke out. Not really a gunfight but the SK troops fired into the air to warn the NK troops in the water. This apparently set off some flags and NK reacted. In the meantime, there was video on one of the blogs links of the NK troops savagely trying to board the ship.
The video showed people trying to board the ship, SK troops trying to knock them back into the water and firing into the air, shouting their warnings the entire time. Then it cuts off at about 1:15 which is when I presume the explosives detonated the ship. However, in all the forums, one specific question was asked that nobody seemed to want to answer. All the "experts" (arm chair geniuses) were attempting their quasi political explanations but this one fella from the Mid-west asked:
"How'd the people in the water get that far from land, and not drown? Who were they? Why were they trying to board the ship?"
I mean, I'd answer but I don't know the answers to any of that.
