I’m going to make this short and sweet as I’m sure you can only guess what this one is about. Erika and I arrived at what we thought was the most adorable little guest house, The Villa Senesouk, in Luang Prabang, Laos. We were required to leave our shoes at the door, giving us instant comfort that this place would be pretty clean. Our room was adorable and we were so happy we would have 3 full nights in one place. As we were getting settled, all of a sudden I heard Erika gasp. She was standing in front of the bathroom door; I immediately knew it had to be a bug. I asked her what it was and she told me to come see for myself. I stood there with a petrified look on my face telling her I really didn’t want to see what was possibly living in there. She told me I had to look so I finally peeked my head around the corner and there he was – the biggest spider I have ever seen in my life, his beady little eyes looking right at me. This thing had hairy 3 inch legs – I’m pretty sure it was a tarantula. Erika looked at me and said, “I can kill it”. My reply, “With what?” We both started cracking up – Erika thinking she could save the day. She ran downstairs to the front desk and she said they looked at her and laughed (mind you, she hadn’t told them the size of our little furry pest). She asked the guy at the front desk if he would kill or remove it as she wasn’t sure if killing bugs (or small creatures in this case) was appropriate in SE Asian cultures. He looked at her and said, “Oh, Spiderman.” He came upstairs and his eyeballs nearly popped out of his head. I was so squeamish and nervous that he wouldn’t catch it and it would come running out into our room that I closed the bathroom door to shut him in. For the next 10 minutes all we heard was Spiderman bouncing all over the bathroom. One minute we heard the water running, the next minute we heard a loud bang against the wall. Hilarious. The bathroom door opened and all we wondered was which one of them, the spider or Spiderman, was going to come out alive. Thankfully Spiderman won the battle, and we made sure he had that fuzzy little creature in hand to prove it. From then on, for the next 3 days, we called him Spidey. We are pretty sure he liked his new title.
The following day Erika found and captured a lizard on the wall in the bedroom and let him loose outside. Also, while sitting at the airport, she spotted a cockroach nearly about to crawl up my leg. At that point forward, she was given the job of Pest Control. Hmm, maybe a new career for her when she returns to Chicago…
As proof of really how big this thing was, compare him to the size of the shower drain on the right. Um, yeah! Gross!
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Erika's sister, Kristin here. I am cracking up out loud, at work, reading this post. You guys are too funny! But that is ONE BIG SPIDER! Yikes! Not sure I would sleep well at night in that room.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates; it's fun reading about your adventure with my sister :)