Awesome But Gross!

After the sad tone of yesterday's blog post,

today I have a little something to lighten the mood a bit.

Whataburger = awesome!

calories = gross.

But this blog post isn't about unnecessary calories.

It's about something quite possibly more scary than that!

Do creepy crawly things gross you out?

Well then you just might not want to view the images I'm about to share.

We recently visited the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, Florida.

We went there for something to do together in order to celebrate our recent anniversary.

You might find yourself asking why we would surround ourselves

with trees and wildlife and not go out to a fancy dinner.

One.

We went there on our honeymoon & thought it would be fun to return two years later.

Two.

We splurged at Bern's Steak House in Tampa for my husband's 30th birthday.

Three.

Did I mention that I love to birdwatch?

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Now are you ready for the creepy crawly

thing we discovered while we were there?

It was sort of mesmerizing watching this arachnid work.

Here is the spiny orb weaver we discovered hard at work

outside of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary restrooms.

Below is a close up

of the spider in action!

It was pretty amazing watching this spider's little legs grab a thread of web

and attach it onto an existing thread. Pretty cool.

(Or maybe just something that an architecture major would love?)

After watching this spiny orb weaver work for a while,

I started to feel like my skin was crawling a bit. "Bleck!"

Have you ever seen a spider like this one before?

{ p.s. Don't even get me started on black widows! I'm really grossed out just thinking of them }