It Was THIS Big

I don't like spiders.

I know they are a part of creation and that they serve a purpose and I'm OK with all that until they come into my space. Then I freak out. This usually involves running and begging Julian do fix the situation ASAP.

Well, Julian is now officially in residency which means that this morning when the spider inside the front door tried to attack me, there was no one to run to. To make matters worse, that big, long legged creature was holding it's ground between me and the bug spray!

Now I was tempted to turn tail and run, but instead I tempted fate and ran past it. The crazy thing was jumping all around, obviously in an attempt to intimidate me back up the stairs! I made it to the bug spray and came rushed back to the battlefield.

Unfortunately, the spider did not seem ill affected by the ant and roach spray that I doused him with. It just made him hopping mad, literally!

So, I sprayed more, and more, and more until I'm pretty sure he was just drowning. Then I got him with a sandal.

Ha!

Settling In

A quick re-cap of our move:

It somehow took 2 days of careful packing and 1 day of just throwing things in boxes to get us packed up. How on Earth did we accumulate so much stuff?! Fortunately, my brother Daniel and our friend Sam came over to help us load the U-haul.
It took us over 30 hours to drive from Denver to Wilmington. The U-haul's gas mileage was terrible so we ended up driving between 50 - 60 mph after the first fill-up.

The long drive was very nicely broken up by a visit to Brent and Pam, some friends who live in Kansas. We got a 12 hour respite there before the second leg of our drive.

Dan drove down from D.C. to help us unload which we are so thankful for. I like to think I'm tough, but there's no way I could have helped Julian move that couch!

Now we're just down to those last few stubborn boxes that we just don't want to deal with and trying to find the missing things. For example, I have no idea where the camera cord is, so I can't get to the pictures on the camera to post. Oh well.

We've made it to the beach a couple of times and are loving our new proximity. We both really want to try surfing now.

Our neighbors are really nice, in fact almost everyone is nice. It's really odd to me to get into conversations with the cashiers at the store or to be asked my opinion on an outfit by a fellow shopper. I've always heard Colorado was a friendly place, but it doesn't hold a candle to this.