An Unwelcome Guest

While we were on Tongatapu we stayed in the Liahona which is the LDS church school. Weather stripping seemed to be lacking and there was an inch gap under our front door. Each night when we came home we had to "de-bug" our apartment. Our efforts were in vain as we would watch centipedes creep in by the dozens.

Unfortunately, centipedes aren't the only thing we had visiting us. One evening we discovered a very unwelcome guest who had taken up residence behind our refrigerator.

We argued about who would be brave enough to "take care of the problem," but no one was overly eager to volunteer.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not by any means a fan of giant spiders but I wasn't about to go to bed knowing that this was behind our refrigerator, so I gathered up all the courage I could muster and stepped up to the plate.

I grabbed a tennis shoe, not mine of course, and squeezed my arm behind the refrigerator to get a better angle. Just a side note, spiders with really long legs run extremely fast! My roommates and I screamed bloody murder as it ran towards us from behind the refrigerator. After a few attempts, the shoe made contact and the spider fell to the ground.

Robin was kind enough to pick it up so I could take a picture and then quickly discard it outside before it had time to come back to life.

Overall not one of the highlights of my trip, but just thought I would share with you.