Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hiss-terics over the Serpentarium!

Last week was our final week of Summer...boohoo! So I wanted to do some especially fun things, we went to the movies one day and Disney another, but the highlight of the week was the serpentarium...We have passed this place probably hundreds of times in the over eight years we have lived here. It is literally 4 minutes away and now after going there I wish, for our safety, that it was a little further away..


Lizzie and Rett are best of friends they used to loathe each other, but have made a turn for love, which is great! They will be in the same pre-K class starting on Wednesday...


They do venom shows everyday at noon and three...First they bring out some for everyone to hold...He said these were not deadly, but it would bleed and hurt if they bit...


It used to not be behind glass, but then someone was bit...that must have been an exciting day! They milked between 6-8 snakes, all deadly snakes! What was frightening was how many snakes they had...hundreds!! and most were very scary ones...mambas, cobras, rattles,cottonmouths....


kind of like milking a cow...right?...although when you milk a cow I'm sure you don't have to worry about losing a finger!!! His pointer on his right hand is a little nub!...


This big guy was a little alarming...I was standing with nothing but a dinky chain link fence and two and a half feet separating me from this 10ft gator... there must be some sort of law prohibiting this...


"Crikey, look at this croc she's a beauty!" Rett loved the crocs...


You can feed lots of turtles in the turtle habitat (more like a pool with a hose for a fountain)...


It is a great find and we will be sure to go back...And now everyone who visits is going to have to go to the serpentarium! Hooray! Good times!

2 comments:

Gretchen J'Deene said...

Hey Eva! I found your blog and am so happy that I have. Your family is so cute and it is great to see what you are up to. The Serpentarium looks like fun!!

Tillia said...

Looks like fun, coleman wants a snake and I told him over my dead body. He got a fish instead.