Warren and Sandra in Taiwan

Here's a crazy story.

About two weeks ago we were sitting at home and it was getting late.  Suddenly Warren started yelling "What is that? Oh my god, there's a bat flying in our living room!" and he rushed into the kitchen and slammed the door.  We both watched through a small opening as the bat flew back and forth in our living room, hallways, bedrooms.  We were kind of freaked out but mostly stunned.  How does a bat get into an apartment? 

 We never open the windows but there is a small opening under our front door, which has since been fixed.  So we opened our front door wide and the living room windows, waiting for it to leave.  But we waited an hour and it wouldn't leave.  I had to go to bed so poor Warren had to deal with the bat on his own.  THe bat ended up going into the light fixture in the living room.  It wouldn't leave and kept making noises everytime Warren would tap the ceiling with a broom.  So just so we could at least get some sleep, he taped all the holes in the light fixture and trapped it inside the ceiling.  The next evening Warren saw it trying to get out so he taped a garbage bag to the ceiling and waited until the bat flew in and he trapped it in the bag. Then he went out and let it outside, back into freedom. 

I actually like bats (from a distance) and i've sat at the window at sunset, watching them eating bugs and flying all over the place.  There's tons of them around our building.  It seems our apartment attracts all kinds of creatures.  We've had a huge flying cockroaches, small beetles, moths, ants, geckos and even a centepede once.  It sounds gross I know and there's many nights I haven't slept well, knowing there's creepy crawlies around but I've gotten used to it now.  And we only find something every week or so (not that bad)

The weather is cooling down a little now, so hopefully the bugs will disappear with the summer....