Arachnophobia

So I'm still here in Honolulu at my parents' house with Alex and Colin.

This evening I picked up a shirt off the floor of my bathroom and put it on after changing out of my swimsuit. I'm washing my hands in the bathroom sink when I feel something strange on my right elbow. I turn my arm around to see what it is, and there is a GIANT spider (the size of a can of tuna) running down my arm! I start screaming at the top of my lungs, because this damn spider is so huge.

My mom is in my room, adjoined to the bathroom and she runs in and says "what is it!?" I scream, "a spider!" and bat it off my arm onto the sink, where she proceeds to whack it with my shoe.

She tells me it is a Cane Spider, and that it usually doesn't bite. Geez, thanks mom. She also tells me they usually are solitary, but sometimes she's seen two at a time. Ick.

So I Googled "cane spider" and this is what came up (beware if you hate spiders): http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hawaii?Animals.cane