It happened last night, around midnight.
I couldn’t believe it, such a thing happened.
Ray and I were ready to fall a sleep at the bed after having a chat about Chopin.
One lamp was on which was in my side.
And the bedroom door was slightly open and not completely closed.
All the windows were closed as usual.
Suddenly something black which looked like an aggressive bird flew into our bedroom !
“ Oh, my.. What’s that !!!!
What should we do ??? “
I shouted.
“ It’s a bird. “
Ray said.
But after watching it fly wildly around our bedroom for a moment, Ray said
“ It’s a bat ! “ .
We both pulled over our blankets and stayed under the blanket for a while.
But soon Ray got out the bed while it was still flying around the room, saying we need to do something to get the bat out.
I kept staying under the blanket on the bed.
Ray called to our apartment answering service.
First a person who answered thought he was joking because it’s Halloween week.
Sure, a bat flying around our bedroom the day after Halloween.
People call usually for snakes around here, so they said we have phone number for snake control.
No, it’s a bat !
We have no idea where the bat came from.
They suggested us to get it out of there using broom or something by ourselves.
And Ray brought a broom, but I kept saying it’s better to have professional animal control for it.
I was too scared.
So Ray called back to the answering service, and they found the phone number of for animal control.
Finally Ray could reach to the animal control, and made the appointment .
Ray came back to the bedroom and could see the bat was hanging upside down on the ceiling above me while I was covering under the blanket.
Why above me ? Please !!!!!
My heart was beating, and the air inside of the blanket was getting tight.
So I slowly got out of the bed, and didn’t look up, and ran to our living room.
Less than one hour, a lady officer come over and caught the bat into a plastic box.
I was so scared to even see the bat in our bedroom, so peeking from my office.
She was fast.
Soon she caught it without having any problem.
The bat while resting and folding it’s wings was quite small. But when it expanded it’s wings, the wingspan was much larger than it’s body, and altogether was like a medium size bird.
She said it might have come from the chimney through the fire place.
The fire place’s window which is made of net was slightly open.
I see.
It’s kind of like a Halloween Dracula movie.
I couldn’t believe it.
She said it’s a normal size adult Arizona bat.
Thank you very much to the officer for helping us !
Arizona has some caves. We’ve been to a cave which is one of the tourist places in Tucson several years ago.
Bats are usually hanging in dark places, but it came into our room where is light from dark places.
That’s mystery.
I wonder why we attracted such a thing ?
We were watching scary movie and x-files on TV in Halloween night.
So some part of scary scenes might be still in my subconscious mind.
I won’t watch scary movie anymore.
But I should take it as good luck sign.
What a night !