Freaked me out!

So I was sitting on the toilet tonight taking care of some "business" (sorry. tmi. I know) and I reach over to get the "paperwork" and out of the corner of my eye I see something moving on the floor below me. I could not believe it! It was slithering across the floor! It went under the door and into the laundry room. Ok... so maybe it didn't slither as much as it scampered... I am not quite sure how to describe what it did. So I finish my "business" very quickly and bravely open the door to the laundry room. Peeking out from under a very full laundry basket are four little feet and a nub of a tail and some greenish brown rough skin. There was what looked like a gecko!
(no I don't need new insurance... sorry... random thought) I didn't know there were geckos in Washington. Maybe it was a little lizard or in the salamander family. I have no idea. So I picked up the little guy ever so carefully. He didn't bite me or even fight to get away. I took him outside and gave him the freedom he had been longing for. Setting him down in the grass I could almost hear his gratitude... ok, so you can't hear gratitude from a gecko lizard thing... but I know that the life of that lizard will be much happier lived out in the great vastness of the yard and beyond rather than locked up in the house with the fear of being eaten by the cat.
Oh the adventures I have had.