Trapped By an Iguana

So I usually keep my front door open because we don't have a/c in our house. I have a screen door that helps keep out the misquitos and this particular day it kept out a bigger pest! I was sitting in my kitchen chair texting Ben when I looked up and this 3.5 foot long (from head to tail) iguana was siting on my welcome mat looking in at me. I jumped up and screamed and ran to the door to shut it. The iguana ran away and towards the end of my porch. I slammed the door and looked out the window. It was at the end of my porch with no place to go, since I am on the second level, and it was just staring at me. These lizards are big and don't scare easily and I am a little afraid of them. So my neighbor saw me and the iguana and came over to try to scare it away. By this point Bronsen came into the kitchen and did not want to try to sneak past the lizard to go pick Kalli up from school. But we really had to go...

I had no idea how we were going to leave the house with this guy (above) now under the kids' picnic table facing us and looking at me with his scaley yellow eye. The first neighbor had called a second neighbor who by the time he got up to my porch with a broom the iguana was gone. I had looked away for 10 seconds to answer my phone and looked on the porch and the iguana was no where to be found! B. said he saw it run away but that would mean it would have had to jump off my 2nd story porch and run across the street! But the 2nd neighbor came up and did a full sweep and gave us the okay to pick up Kalli.

This is our "iguana tree" in the field right next to our house. I believe this is where our visitor came from. How many iguanas do you see?

Needless to say that this could only happen in PR!!!