Thursday, March 25, 2010

We've Been Robbed!

For Real

John was planning on leaving for a little trip this morning to an employees wedding, a 6 hour bus ride away. He packed all his stuff into his backpack and we went to sleep. I heard footsteps in the middle of the night, but had gone to sleep with a fever and thought I was just hearing things. I'm actually so glad I didn't register what was going on because I don't know if they had been armed or what would've happened if we came face to face (and by "we", I mean him and John).
John got up early and started getting ready to go. I wasn't thrilled about it since I was feeling so yucky, but it was going to be a good trip for him.
I heard lots of gasps and "Oh no"s from John in the front room, so I rolled out of bed to see what was up. He said "We've been robbed." The first thing I did was run to the kids room and make sure they were still there. Once I knew my kids were safe, I didn't care as much about all the stuff that was gone...3 laptops, 2 cameras, an Ipod, cell phone, the hard drive that backed up the laptops (awesome), my purse (again), some cords and other things that go along with it all. 2 other apartments were robbed as well. They got away with less in one of them because the man sleeping here was woken by the thief and chased him off! He thought that he, specifically, was being targeted, so he stayed up and played guard dog for the rest of the night. We found all of our useless stuff thrown over the cliff that drops to the ocean...beach toys, sunscreen, sunglasses, hats (the contents of my purse), not my wallet though that held my drivers license, a credit card and about $200. It looks like they had gone through John's backpack on our back patio and left his clothes and his passport! Thank goodness! After my children, our passports were the next thing I worried about. All the other passports were hidden.
Yesterday, John jumped in the pool with his wallet in his pocket, so he had laid all of it's contents out in our room to dry off. Which was another tender mercy in this whole thing because we still have his credit card, which is now our only way to access our bank account from here.
The German girl in the apartment next to us, who was also robbed has been going around the back alleys and talking to shady people about where she can buy cheap electronics in hopes to being lead to our stuff.
The complex here has surveillance cameras that caught only the backs of 2 men, one wearing John's backpack!
I have never been so thankful for my blog. All the pictures from our trip are gone except the ones I blogged! And thank goodness I blogged so religiously and was pretty much up to date.
So this may be the end of it people. For sure no more pictures! So sad. But I will at least try to get up a story or two.
Know that we are all safe and sound here. I'm not feeling too violated or upset about the situation and we are sure not going to let this ruin the rest of our trip, but I am starting to get anxious to come home...although even that waned a bit when I was eating dinner at the pool and said "Can I get more water. Oh and can you send out my laundry?"
Just can't wait to see my new niece though-
Camryn Ivy Hansen
(for more pics check out my sisters blog)

10 comments:

Andrea J said...

That's terrible, I'm really sorry that happened.

heather said...

SO glad that everyone is safe! I hope you are able to find your stuff! That is scary, you have the best attitude about it, you never cease to amaze!

Ali said...

Wow, that is really crummy. But glad that no one was hurt or too traumatized by it. I also think it is good that everyone slept through it.

Jon and Tasha Fam said...

oh my!! I am so sorry about that!! Yikes!! I am glad you are ok :)

Kelly Fam said...

I'm so sorry about all that stuff that was taken. I guess it is just stuff but it's still a headache. I can't believe your other stuff was thrown over a cliff. what the....? I think the thing that would creep me out the most would be knowing someone was in my house while we were all sleeping. that is spooky.

Hayward Family said...

KIM!! That is horrible!! I'm so glad you are all ok! I'm so sorry you got robbed.. what a HORRIBLE feeling! :( I'm glad you are all still safe. That is such a CUTE name of your new niece!! CONGRATS!

Leslie said...

Man that is horrible!!!!! you guys have the worst luck when getting robbed!!! :( LOL thank gosh no one was hurt that must be a horrible feeling though. I am so sad for you for the things they took! :( I am so glad everyone is okay! :)

JEN MARX said...

That totally sucks! Good thing you still had your CC and passports! I am always worried about that when we travel! Good job on blogging too! It would be a sad day if you lost all those pics! :)

Brittany said...

What a mess! I'm so sorry that happened to your family.

You are so good at blogging - and I'm glad those pictures are safe. The ones of your family on the beach are PRICELESS!!

Harmony said...

I would be soooo glad that I hadn't opened my eyes! I'm sorry you lost so much stuff though. So glad your kiddos are safe and sound!