Day One-The Hunt

So Big B and I decided to head up a day early to the cabin. I packed the kiddos up and headed to Big-B's work and picked him up and we began our trek out of town when he got off. The kids did ok for the most part of the trip. We stopped half way for a potty break and to visit Granny (my grandma). The kids loved visiting her. She took them up to see her neighbors' miniature horses and their new baby. Sweet-E was sad to leave Granny's house, for the whole second part of the trip she just kept asking where Granny was. Of course when you stop to see Granny you have to get some yummy Mexican food, so we grabbed some to go and headed up to the mountain. Once we got there, we stopped in town to get some groceries, and then headed on to the cabin. By that time both the kiddos were asleep. We finally arrived at the cabin, only to find that someone had left the HEATER on and the cabin was well above 80 degrees inside....it was HOT....we thought....so much for getting away from the heat! So we quickly opened all the windows and doors trying to cool the place off before we went to bed. We got the kids to sleep and unpacked the car and rearranged all of our "stuff" and started to watch a movie. We quickly realized that we were both too tired to watch a movie, so we decided just to go to bed. Big B went upstairs to close the loft door when he yelled, "LOOK A BAT!!!" Sure enough a bat had flown in while we had the doors open. I was down stairs and quickly took cover between the wall and the staircase. Big B said, "how do you get a bat out, you really can't shut off the lights, they like the dark." Needless to say we tried lights on and lights off each with no luck. One time Big B told me turn the lights off one more time, so I did, then he said, "well I don't see it anymore maybe it went out when I was not looking." So I turned the lights on, then I had a weird feeling and decided to check the bedroom that had the door open downstairs, sure enough I looked in and the thing came flying at my HEAD! I slammed the door shut and screamed like a baby! So in comes my mighty hunter of a husband.....I will let the pictures explain the rest!

Ever clever Big B decided a fishing net would work as the weapon of choice. He also used the night shot of our video camera to locate the varmint. Then he handed me the video camera so I could video tape him in action!!

Big B quickly realized that the net alone was not going to cut it, so being ever resourceful he grabbed the nearest trash can!

Here is the little varmint. It was so tiny that it was trying to get out through the holes in the net! Big B wanted to keep him as a pet....I said, "NO WAY!!! Let it go NOW!!"

So there you have it....Day one....never a dull moment when we are around!!


PS. And if you are wondering...no you can NOT see the video....at one point the thing flew towards me and I nearly dropped and camera while running away, and may or may not have said a bad word....all while the red record button was still on....uhhh another shinning star for me!