Terror in the Night

We were exhausted after our second day in Yulura.  We had one more day of hiking around, so we got to bed early.    Glenn woke up during the night of hearing something crawling on his pillow.  His scurrying in the bed woke me up and he told me he was going to turn on the light. Glenn started screaming and ran out of the room, yelling OMG it is huge.  I look over on his pillow and there was the biggest bug I have ever seen.  And as you may know, Glenn HATES bugs.  I ran screaming out of the room (I'm sure our neighbors loved that).  This bug was the size of a small animal. I wish I had a picture of it but I was too concerned with calming Glenn down and getting it killed to take a picture.  I grabbed my sneaker and hit the bug but the pillow wasn't giving me a hard enough surface to kill the thing.  Again, this monster was big. I grabbed the pillow and threw it on the bathroom floor.  When I picked it back up to shake off the bug, I couldn't find it anymore.  I started to panic. Where did the monster go?  I was yelling I lost it; I can't find it (Glenn was in full panic mode and wasn't listening luckily).  I was looking everywhere and suddenly I felt something crawling up my arm.  The monster had jumped on me without me realizing.  I threw it off of me and finally killed it.  It really was a scene out of a horror movie!!  Needless to say, we didn't sleep much those last 2 nights in that hotel, as we were so scared the monster's family was going to come get us.  We've been sleeping with the lights on since.  I guess it was expected in the outback but Glenn definitely didn't want to wake up to it sharing pillow time with him!

The next day we head out to the Olgas to do a couple of hikes.  We were both glad to get out of the room for a while and not think about the night before.  The Olgas are taller than Ayers Rock and are equally as gorgeous.  It was really windy that day but sunny and fairly warm.

The Olgas behind us:

We did two different hikes but our highlight was seeing a kangaroo!  I was taking pictures when I spotted him.

He stared at me for a minute:

Then took off:

The second hike we did was the Valley of the Winds and it was definitely windy in the canyon.  The views were wonderful though.

Goodbye Yulura...off to Alice Springs!