Mr. Spider

Right before Meredith and I were going to start working on our lessons last night (we have both been called as Sunday School teachers) she needed to use the restroom. I was sitting at the kitchen table when I heard "Vanessa... Come here... there's a spider..." So I got up and went in to see THIS

Our friend Mr. Spider! Of course, I had to document this for the blog so I got my camera and took a bunch of shots while he was chillin' out in the corner. Well just taking pictures wasn't enough because they can be deceiving if you don't have some type of reference point so I asked Mer if she had a quarter.

Yes, he was a BIG spider. Then I said to her, "Do we want to be charitable and try to relocate him to the outside world or should we just squish him?" Well, we went with the Save the Spider route. I went and got a cup and tried to get him in all while singing about how "Mr. Spider" shouldn't move and then get in the cup nicely. He didn't listen very well and started crawling towards me very, very quickly. You can imagine me freaking out a little bit... (All while this was happening, our other roommate Rachel was Skyping her mom.) He made it onto our hallway carpet, so Meredith and I were trying to find him and get the cup onto him.

Luckily we spotted him before he went into anyone's bedrooms but we were making quite a racket so Rachel came out and asked what was going on. We explained the situation and showed her Mr. Spider and she completely understood. We slipped some paper under the cup and then Mer went to pick it up to relocate him.

If you've ever seen printer paper, you know that it isn't very hard and as she picked it up, the paper bent and he was escaping! I was right next to her and didn't want a spider down my shirt so I backed away real quick and she threw the cup and the paper down and we lost him in the carpet again! We then found him again and got the cup back over him. I was about to go get one our FHE brothers or someone to come take the spider outside but then Rachel grabbed the cup and paper, flipped it over and was ready to take Mr. Spider back to his home. She was the hero of the day!