Houseguests!!!!

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This is a direct quote taken from the movie Madhouse with Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette and it pretty much sums up my last 3 days. "I'm talking about houseguests. Lock your doors, don't answer your phone, if you have to leave the country then leave the country but don't let them in. Don't let them fool you. They are very, very tricky. They might look like your mother or your father or your best friend but their not. Their animals. Their cockroaches. If we have a nuclear war the only living thing to survive will be houseguests." Let me give you a run down of the last 3 days. My friend (who I have known for 10 years) decided on a spur of the moment visit (they got their tax return) to Missouri to visit me and her family. She told me several times that they were staying at motels so I didn't even think about them staying here. We have a 2 bedroom apartment and the 2nd bedroom is our office with our desks and pc's. Well, they ended up staying with us for 3 nights. "They" would be my friend, her b/f, her 2 year old and her 1 year old. The 1 year old was fine, she's actually pretty quiet and not too fussy. Although she did scare the sh*t out of me the first night when I woke up to what I thought was the smoke alarms going off only to realize that she was in her playpen not 2 feet from where the other 3 were sleeping and they didn't hear a thing although I was on the other end of the apartment with our bedroom door closed and Hubby's breathing machine going. The next morning my friend tells me that she sleeps through it all the time and never hears a thing but that her b/f usually gets up with her but he must have been really tired. I still can't understand how anyone can sleep through that. The 2 year old is going through the touch and grab everything phase and could not keep her hands off anything. And not clean hands...hands covered with chocolate, macaroni and cheese, biter cookies (those baby cookies that disolve into mush with the first sign of saliva) and cheetos. She did not stay out of anything. She dug in the trash can, grabbed cell phones, soda cans, cigarettes, ashtrays, you name it. Her parents yelled at her, she'd cry, they'd pick her up and 10 seconds later she was right back at it. I was actually thinking of duct taping her to a wall so she'd stay out of stuff. My friend and her b/f have what I look at as a unique relationship. He pretty much does it all. Diaper changes, cooking, laundry, chasing the kids, you name it and her job is to tell him what to do. I couldn't decide which was making me more nuts the screaming kid or the yelling parents. She got aggrivated b/c I suggested we cook breakfast together and she didn't want to b/c she "didn't want him getting used to it". I mean I know she's pregnant again but still.... They left last night to go stay their last night at her parents house and I spent half of my night picking up trash, scrapping dried chocolate off my wooden coffee tables, cleaning up spilled fish food and trying to clean my house back up and put it back in order. I still have more to do today. Morgana spent 3 days hiding in our office, hissing at our houseguests every chance she got and is now double checking the entire apartment to make sure they are really gone. God knows, she and I have been friends for a long time but sorry to say the next time they come for a visit...I'm letting her know to reserve their motel room in advance... Have you ever had houseguests? Was it good or bad? **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~