Nessie the American Alligator at ARC's Customer Appreciatiom Day

Rick and I joined in the "herptological" festivities at our favorite local (-ish) reptile store, Amazon Reptile Center, for their 'Customer Appreciation Day' and had our pictures taken with Nessie, the american alligator. She was wonderful to be near and her handler let me get a "closer encounter", as you can see in the third picture. Wooowoo!

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Amazon Reptile roxx0rz...=D

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Fun caveat to Customer Appreciation Day...Rick and I bought some raffle tickets, benefitting <a super cool cause of which now escapes my mind>. It turns out we won two prizes; a store t-shirt and a "floating log for turtles". Woo! T-shirts rock! Um...turtles...and logs...for them. Woo!

We got to the store this weekend to pick up our prizes and feeders for the week and were able to re-gift the floating turtle log to one of the regular store employees, Tim, who was totally JAZZED to bring home a new floating log for his turtles. Woo! Everyone wins! YAY! =D