Creepy Crawlies

So last night I was innocently walking into my bathroom to brush my teeth before bed, half asleep, quite medicated, all in all not what you would call alert. But that soon changed when I saw what was waiting for me in my sink. The biggest, hairiest, meanest spider I have ever seen had got itself stuck in the sick and was frantically trying to climb the sides of the basin, with little success. I thought I was going to hve a heart attack, this thing was massive. On the grand scale of things obviously this was not the biggest spider in the world, but it was easily 3 or 4 times bigger than anything I had ever seen in New England. So we both just stood there, looking at each other, not knowing what to do, it was trying to climb up the steepest part of the basin and had not tried the other side which would have been much easier, therefore I did not want to leave in case it discovered that it could escape. Then I would have some eight legged monster crawling around my room all night, a much worse situation. 

So I dashed upstairs to get Mama, a glass big enough to put the thing in, and of course, my camera. After taking some photos, it was time to extract this beast from my sink. Being a curved surface, it was difficult to make a seal with the glass, but eventually I got the thing in there with a notebook underneath and was able to put it out into the street. 

That night everything looked like giant spiders, I mean everything, shadows, crinkles in my bed-sheets, I think I even mistook my hand for a big flesh colored spider at one point. Mama said it wasn't a good idea to leave my window open an night because that is when all the little creatures go into the house for light and warmth, I had learned my lesson. I lay awake for ages thinking about how many nights I had left my window open, and how many more spiders there probably were lurking in my room....