Bed.Bugs.

So this week was just another normal week in Flat 9 until Bianca convinced me that we had bed bugs. Last week, the weather in London was incredible. With incredible weather here, it was actually hot. It never gets hot in London so our windows were constantly open and everyone in London spent their weekend at the park. At the beginning of the week, Bianca and I noticed bug bites on our arms. We thought about it and narrowed it down to the windows being open and the heat bringing bugs in or that they were from our weekend spent at the park. Little did we know, we had bed bugs. Every morning, Bianca would wake up and show me all of her new bites. That is when I started to grow concerned. She had clusters all over her arms, while I just had a few welts on my forearms and back. By Wednesday, we had done the research and decided that it was probably bed bugs so we went to a pharmacist. The pharmacist confirmed this idea of ours and while I began to scratch myself by instinct just thinking about it, she consoled me by saying she had bed bugs in her flat this year too. That definitely did not help my feelings and concern. We asked about sprays or anything we could buy there to get rid of them and the pharmacist insisted that we would have to hire professional help and that it was very pricey. YAY!
Bianca and I returned that night to begin our bug hunt investigation. We tried to be very tricky and almost sneak up on them by turning off all the lights and then quickly turning them on and ripping the top mattress off the bed. We could not see anything, so we searched further & finally had success. A dead bug! I, of course, wanted to save it. Not for a collection but rather to show the bug man/ our flat tenant, so we put the dead bug in a tupperware container and placed it on the mantel. Lovely. I am not going to post a picture because that is just gross but you can definitely google it.
Since I am kind of over this bug talk, I will just get down to business. The flat tenant apologized and was immediately bringing the bug man into our room on Thursday. He then told us the news that we would have to wash EVERYTHING and the room would be sprayed on Monday morning. So this weekend, I have spent my time washing clothes, drying clothes, and then ironing clothes.
Please do not think we are dirty people. The bugs were here before us they assured us. We are just blessed and have to deal with it. When in Rome.
Cheers!