“Squirrel!”

O.K., so it wasn’t a squirrel but I sure wish the film would have been rolling for this.  We were tearfully watching the movie “UP” with the girls (Tony and I are just a couple of saps) and into the room flew a bug.  Tony and I looked at one another with sort of big eyes that said, “what was that?”  I suggested it was just one of the giant beetle bugs that we have seen around town either flying or dead on the ground (about double the size of a stink bug).  Tony for sure thought it was his eternal nemesis and immediately gets up to have a look, it turns out to be some sort of bee!  I said, “a bee!?”  “Dude, it’s huge, like the size of a small mouse!”  Maybe I was exaggerating a little, but I can tell you, you wouldn’t want this sucker stinging you.  Tony went looking for the RAID with no avail (it was probably confiscated at the airport when we first came).  I got up to ask our neighbor for some bug spray and I got a second look at the “bee” behind the curtain and that is when my eyes grew twice their size and I rushed the girls out of the living room and closed the door.  Did I mention that it was HUGE!  As the girls and I watch from the window into the living room and fight off the ebee geebeez Tony comes with the bug spray.  We began to prepare for the attack, and I’m telling you, the Grizwalds had nothing on us!  Tony was going in and I nearly shut the door behind him.  He didn’t let me thank goodness, I stood guard to close it as he would come running out.  Tony carefully looked for the “bee” and all of a sudden I spotted it, I could do nothing more than scream and point and wave him away, he eventually got the idea with a jump and nearly fleeing the room.  He sprayed the bug and came running out as I squealed and jumped in place and said “run, run, run”!  As this continues 2 more times the girls kept returning to asses the situation and running screaming and closing themselves in the bathroom for safety.  It was something like this, “ahhhhh, ahhhhh, ahhhhhh, ahhhhh!”  Finally the “bee” fell to the ground, with our neighbor watching the excitement now in amazement Tony whacked the bug with a magazine and we snapped a few pictures of the beast before sending it down the toilet and listening to the girls shrill screaming and running around the house one last time!  We laughed at how silly we were and could imagine this seen in a good Grizwald movie.  But let me tell you, the hair on the back of my neck is still standing up!