Thailand trip (DU no-no!!!, tons of pics!!)

Wow wow wow!

That dude is HOLDING kraits?! OMFriggin'..?! DUDE?! Do you *know* you're holding some of the deadliest venomous snakes in the world....casually?!

Wow!

And how neat you got to do your mission in Thailand! I feel bad for the LDS kids, obviously missionaries, walking around my town here in California...I mean, how boring?! Pfft, if I was LDS, shoot, send me somewhere exotic and COOL!

And totally cool you learned the language! Regardless that your brother is an educated linguist, yadda yadda, you got skillz, Evan...to learn another language with different sounds, as an adult, you have to be seriously proud of yourself. =) I know, since I have a degree in French and studied both linguistics as well as the Arabic and Chinese languages (before I went cross-eyed, nearly flunked out of college and focused on French and um, oh...19th century French poetry and lit)...

Oh and wow, SNAKIES! Big bad meanie ones! Too bad to hear that their husbandry is not as good as it should be. =P

Cassandra, Your posts are ALWAYS a scream to read!!


Coooool pics, Evan.....So, how tall are you??? So that the skins can be measured?

That is soooo neat that you got a chance to go back to Thailand, and this time take your family. Did you get to go thru some of your areas? Or connect w/some of the families from before?????

THANKS!! for sharing. Those are really awesome snake pictures. :thumbsup:


RuLyn

Yea I speak Spain Spanish, I'm first generation in the U.S. picked up Italian in High School and College. Started reading a book recently on latin but the romance languanges are all pretty much the same when it comes to grammer, so I have an easy time with them. Mandarin and Thai now thats something to give a pat on the back about. I had a friend that tried teaching me some mandarin but all I remember how to say now is, "thats terrible" and "stupid boy" that will get me far right?:cool:

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Originally Posted by sweety314

Cassandra, Your posts are ALWAYS a scream to read!!

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:snake: :carrot: I can be quite a crazy person...=D

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Wow wow wow!

That dude is HOLDING kraits?! OMFriggin'..?! DUDE?! Do you *know* you're holding some of the deadliest venomous snakes in the world....casually?!

Wow!

And how neat you got to do your mission in Thailand! I feel bad for the LDS kids, obviously missionaries, walking around my town here in California...I mean, how boring?! Pfft, if I was LDS, shoot, send me somewhere exotic and COOL!

And totally cool you learned the language! Regardless that your brother is an educated linguist, yadda yadda, you got skillz, Evan...to learn another language with different sounds, as an adult, you have to be seriously proud of yourself. =) I know, since I have a degree in French and studied both linguistics as well as the Arabic and Chinese languages (before I went cross-eyed, nearly flunked out of college and focused on French and um, oh...19th century French poetry and lit)...

Oh and wow, SNAKIES! Big bad meanie ones! Too bad to hear that their husbandry is not as good as it should be. =P

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Those kraits can be so docile during the day, but once night rolls around, don't mess!!!. I think it helps that they are handled like that a few times a day, but still, I don't think I'd be doing that so casually! Give me a hook and a lot of room and I think i'd be OK though.

Yeah, I was so stoked when I got my papers and it said Thailand, definitely better than Montana or something!

-Evan

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Originally Posted by sweety314

Coooool pics, Evan.....So, how tall are you??? So that the skins can be measured?

That is soooo neat that you got a chance to go back to Thailand, and this time take your family. Did you get to go thru some of your areas? Or connect w/some of the families from before?????

THANKS!! for sharing. Those are really awesome snake pictures. :thumbsup:


RuLyn

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I'm 6'2", so those skins are pretty long. Yeah, we went through a few of my old areas, and met up with some of the families I was really close with there. One family is even from China, so my brother got a chance to try and speak Cantonese for a while. :D

-Evan

WOW
Sounds like you had a BLAST!
Great great pictures. I'm amazed bu them!

Wow, what great photos. The country side in the backround of that first pic lookied like it would be fun to explore.
The picture of the animal swimming, is that a water monitor?
Great pics again, thanks for sharing.
Rusty
PS I would love to have a great conversation with a real old timer snake handler. You are a lucky man!

Rusty,
I wish we'd had more time to go out looking for native herps when I was there, I would have loved to find some more Trimeresurus. I found a T. albolabris crossing a road when I was there previously, and was blown away at how brilliant green there can be! But alas, we were on a pretty tight schedule, so no go :(.

Yeah, that's a salvator, this guy was pretty big, probably about 6 ft. I saw a couple others swimming around the lake, but I almost stepped on this guy on the shore while I was trying to get a good pic of those swimming around. He bolted when I was 4 feet away from him, and I about jumped out of my pants :eek:. Fun times!

-Evan

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Originally Posted by Rusty_Reptiles

Wow, what great photos. The country side in the backround of that first pic lookied like it would be fun to explore.
The picture of the animal swimming, is that a water monitor?
Great pics again, thanks for sharing.
Rusty
PS I would love to have a great conversation with a real old timer snake handler. You are a lucky man!

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That must have been an awesome trip; that must have been something you'll never forget. Elephant riding in Thailand; who gets to do such a cool thing!
I have a maybe-stupid question.. do they eat rice-noodles a lot there? One of my favorite treats is this rice-noodle soup that's imported from Thailand, from the local grocery store.. I LUV it!