Babysitting

Sydney was so excited about this.  She even told random strangers, "I get to take home the class Hermit Crab over Thanksgiving!  That means I get him for TEN days." 

So, claw came home with her about 9 days ago, she promptly set up his food and water, and got him all situated, and we all watched. 

He is very exciting.  He spends 99% of his time like this:

There he is, in the left front corner.  Just a big lump of shell.

Once a day we pick him up to make sure he's alive.  A creepy crawly little guy comes out and takes a peek at us.

And, usually he'll go take a bite or two of his food, then dump the rest, and crawl back into his corner.  Such an exciting pet.