So... one night when I was asleep, I woke up because I could hear this weird scratching noise. I sat up and listened and came to the conclusion that there was a mouse in my room. I had a sack of food on the floor, so I turned on the light and moved it off the floor. Then I went back to sleep. I woke up a few more times and could still hear the scratching noise. Then I woke up around 3 am and could hear this "
th,
th,
th,
th,
th,
th,
th," noise on the floor above me. Monica and
Rielly and Gibson and I were the only ones at the cabin this night. I couldn't believe that Monica couldn't hear the noise, too, because it sounded like something was running around on her bedroom floor upstairs. I started wondering if a raccoon or squirrel had gotten into the house. After sitting there for a few minutes and realizing that the noise wasn't going away, I sat up and turned on the lamp. A bat flew one inch over my face! The noise wasn't an animal running around on the floor, it was a bat flying around my room. And it wasn't flying near the ceiling, it was doing figure 8's around the room only inches from my head!!! So I quickly pulled the sheet up over Gibson and
I's heads and started
panicking. Gibson woke up and pulled the sheet off his head and I said, "No! There's a bat flying around!" So now we're both wide awake and terrified. We couldn't even roll over onto our sides to get out of the bed because it was flying so close to our faces. Finally it stopped, but it perched right above the door! So we were still trapped. Then it started flying around again. Finally it stopped somewhere else and Gibson and I bolted from the room and slammed the door! But then I realized we needed our pillows! I opened the door back up and the bat almost flew in my face! I slammed the door again. Finally, we got our pillows and went to bed in the other guest room. In the morning, I told Monica our story and we tried to decide what to do. We were the only ones up there. The only guy around was the next door neighbor. So we took Aaron some pancakes and bribed him to come over and catch our bat. He came over, but could not find where it was sleeping. Later that afternoon, Monica laid on my bed with a flashlight and finally found the bat! It was sleeping on a log right above my head! Kim was at the cabin playing Go Fish with the boys, and she said that she would catch it! We
equipped her with gloves and a butterfly net. But the bat wouldn't budge. Finally I got a wire hanger and pushed it out of its hole and Kim caught it with the net. However, it got out of the net and Monica and I SCREAMED! Monica ran out the bedroom door and I ran out the sliding glass door. Kim was running around the room with the butterfly net trying to catch the bat by herself! But she finally caught it and we let it go outside. Fortunately, he never came back to visit!
Christen and Kim trying to get the bat to come out of its hole.
The bat in the butterfly net after Kim caught it the second time!
Rielly and Gibson on the shore of the ocean.
One of their neighbors at the lake, Troy, has this VERY fast waverunner. He was bound and determined to dump me! But I held on too tight. The only way he was able to dump me off....
... was to completely tip the entire thing over! So he went down, too! Boy, that was a fun ride!
Floater Gibson!
This is me, taking a nice, LEISURELY, SLOW waverunner ride! No tipping here!
Another picture of our bat (in the orange net on the floor)! This is Kim, our wonderful bat catcher!
Boys turn to jump on the trampoline!
Girls turn to jump on the trampoline!
Ah - there's Callie in the swing! With Avery and Brynne.
Our room - appropriately named the "Bat Cave".
The lake was very beautiful. It was completely surrounded by trees. If you woke up in the morning and it was foggy - that was a good sign; it meant it was going to be a hot day!
