What a GREAT DAY! (Dial-up Warning)

[JLC]

We had a BLAST at the NVRE show! Did anyone else show up that we didn't find? It was me, Jotay, Smynx and Smulkin, my daughter, and the Smynulkin boys.

Here's just a few pics. I will let Smynx and Smulkin brag the news about what they bought at the show, so you'll have to wait until they get home...

This is Brian Sharp...one of the great breeders of BP's. I had a nice long talk with him. He's very friendly and personable. This snake he's holding is a brand new morph that he expects to prove out in the next year or so. This is a male he aquired a couple weeks ago and he's got a female at home that he got a year ago that looks exactly like him. The pictures just don't do justice to how beautiful this snake was! The morph doesn't have a name yet...


Close up of that new snake...


Here's my daughter holding a very sweet BCI...


This is a two year old bp that I just fell in love with. He's a "normal" but his color is an almost startling chocolate brown. He's also in shed, so looks a tad raggedy. I'll bet his colors are even richer right after a shed! They would have taken only $40 for him, and I would have given anything to be able to bring him home with me. Well...anything except the peace of my marriage! :wink:


And here's all of us! Jotay is on the left, then me and my daughter, then of course, the Smynulkins!


Wish you all could have been there!

[JLC]

Petra and I also spent the day walking around The Mall, the new WWII Memorial, many monuments and the Tidal Basin with these guys. (Jotay had to go home after lunch, though.) I must say, it was an extreme pleasure! Jotay is a blast to be around, and the Smynulkins are a wonderful family!

Smynx and Smulkin, you're raising some great guys there! (I can tell, despite the teenage antics! :wink: ) We had such a blast getting to know you guys! I hope we can do something similar again someday....although maybe we'll bypass the tidal basin next time... :mrgreen:

[Soul_Of_Fire]

Sounds like you had an awsome time. Great lookin' BP up there in the first pic. Whats that dude in the white holding sorry I don't know him or his name.

[JLC]

LOL...well, if you read the text that I wrote above the pictures, it'll say who he is, and what that snake is. :wink:

[Soul_Of_Fire]

And here's all of us! Jotay is on the left, then me and my daughter, then of course, the Smynulkins!

says nothin' about the snake thats being held by him. I'm talking about the last pic in the 'album' i guess you could call it. I'm just gonna guess its Smulkin. Still don't know his actual name unless of course thats it.

[JLC]

Oohhhh....Sorry, Andrew. I thought you were talking about the guy/snake in the top pictures. That is Smulkin holding one of their new babies. But I really should let them do the bragging about those.

[Marla]

Wish I'd been able to make it and meet up with y'all. It sounds like you had a blast. I'm looking forward to hearing about Smynx and Smulkin's new acquisitions. I guess you and Petra were just "window shopping" this time? And Jotay, did you get any new critters?

[jotay]

No, Marla I did not but I did find the breeder I am gonna get my BCI from.
I did buy a Helix T-stat for Ozzy's new AP cage ( now I just need the cage to be del) But I sure could have walked out of there with more than a few.
Some really beautiful creatures there.
It was great to met Judy and her daughter and the Smulkins. I had a great time and I am so glad I went. You guys are just great down to earth folks!
My son wishes he had gone now!
Sorry I baled on the sightseeing but I was tired from lack of sleep the night before, sorry I missed it. I could have spent all day with the great company.
Wonderful idea Judy, hats off to ya.

[Smulkin]

Truly a shame you missed on the "bataan death march" (as the kids seemed to think it) around DC. I am amazed I didn't get any more lost than I did - the whole Northern VA area has changed drastically in the 15 years since I lived there. Was awesome seeing you guys there.

The show was a blast! Didn't see any white-lipped pythons so I came away empty handed. What you see in my hand in the pic was actually purchased by our 13 year-old (black shirt) who used his hard earned birthday money to buy a male black blood python. He's had his eyes fixed on this big black Pine until he saw the pumpkin orange eyes on the Blood. I was kind of wary but the breeder plucked it right out of it's deli container and handed it to us with the caveat "not to say it won't EVER bite you - but these are incredibly good-natured". It was, at that - except for girth you could've been holding an unshy ball. Shortly after he paid for it and I was getting a more comfortably sized container for it it christened him. gess he takes after his dad in that we're "blessed" with the p00 touch.

I'll have to let Smynx tell you what she got for her mother's day present . . .

[Marla]

Amazing restraint you guys have. I am impressed. It sounds like it was a show worth attending, for sure. I am looking forward to the Atlanta Expo in the fall -- I may just camp out right there for convenience, even though it's only 10 or 20 miles from here.