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)