dunno if I'm in the right spot or not, and if not can someone please redirect me?

anywho, I'm seriously thinking about getting baby bull snakes for my girls for christmas (they are 13 and 9). we've had my bp's for about 2 years or so now and the kids love it. they help me take care of them and stuff, and have some experience with snakes.

so the girl at the pet store and I had a conversation about what could be best as a "starter" snake. she brought out a baby bull...no more than a month old...and it was simply adorable!! it seems to be a fairly decent snake for kids to start with...fairly mellow and just cute as a button. (cant get over the cuteness factor. we're talking the size of a full length pencil!)

so anyway, I guess what I'm asking is this : anyone have bull snakes, and if yes, how do you feel they would rate as a beginner snake?

I was told they are native to Minnesota, and my youngest's teacher has a yard full of them, so they have to be pretty hardy to survive a minnesota winter...hibernation and all.

(wonder if I'm thinking about making it a christmas present for them so I can play with them too?)

we actually got to see them hatch, so I guess they are kind of special to me in a weird sort of way.

(also, I dont always have computer access so if I'm taking a while to get back to anyone, please bear with me. we had a crazy move and nothing from trouble from our local cable internet company. I mean, takes 5 weeks to get it to the point it wasnt dropping packets, and we had 16 techs come out and try to fix it. last guy swapped out the modem and it worked fine. go figure, eh?)

so I'm behind on stuff.