Well folks, some of you may have noticed that I haven't been around much the past week, and I have a good reason. My girlfriend and I took a trip up to D.C.. We spent an entire day at the National Zoo, (of course 75% of it in the reptile house )

Now for someone like myself, that doesn't get out very often, I saw some of the most amazing reptiles I've ever layed eyes upon. They had lots of venomous snakes, and I was able to witness 2 cobras breeding, a gaboon viper eating, and a boomslang climbing from branch to branch as if it was weightless. They had a few massive burmese pythons, and a green andaconda that was about 15 feet in length. I was beginning to get disappointed when the exhibit was coming to an end (i just wanted to see a ball )... and low and behold, one of the zoo keepers had one of his own pets with him. A 3 year old piebald with more white than I had ever imagined.

They had many species of lizards and geckos, the tokay being my favorite of the trip. They have exhibits for tamarins in the small mammel house, and inside were geckos everywhere. The exhibit description explained how tokays and tamarins live together benificially. The tokays were just chillin in the branches, and the tamarins didn't even seem to notice them. The exhibit was larger than my living room, and everywhere I looked I saw a gecko. In the reptile house, I got to witness the largest iguana I've ever seen eat a few grapes. Bearded dragons basking, marine iguana's swimming... and of course, komodo dragons... It was just a great day all in all...

But of all the reptiles I saw, the one I spent the most time watching was the plain jane red tail boa. It was massive, and very healthy. He seemed as if he was actually hunting in the wild.

Anyone in the Virginia/Maryland area, take a trip to the National Zoo in Washington. It's a non-profit zoo, the only thing you pay for is parking... Cost the two of us 20 dollars for a 12 hour trip to the zoo.



(sorry for the ramble, but I'm STILL excited 2 days later...)

-Will