Oh bats! [housekeepery]

When I woke up this morning, there was some noise and confusion in the dining room, which turned out to be two bats, flying around!

I have no idea how they got in. I also don't know how successful I was at getting them back outside. I managed to get one out onto the front porch, but it eventually stopped flying around and found a really good hiding place for itself among the thousands of cardboard boxes piled up. The other one might have similarly found a hiding spot in the front hall closet.

I don't know for sure because I was feeling the time crunch of trying to get out the door for rowing practice. I'm not sure how useful it would have been to try tearing the entire house apart to get at the bats. It seemed better to just leave them be, especially because as best I understand it, humans should generally avoid handling bats directly.

Have you ever had bats in your house? What did you do?