My Mom and Brother came down for Thanksgiving this year from CO, as it was both a holiday and my birthday so as a gift I didn't have to travel anywhere, lol. It was their first time seeing the snakes, and I have to say... SO proud of Mom.

She said "no promises!" and has been very squeemish about the whole thing, but after meeting them in person she pet them and even all but held Ma-tsu. So proud! She was impressed with how nice they felt, not at all slimey, and thought Gomez felt very nice on her feet. She also said she was surprised at how really denim blue Ma-tsu is, as the flash on my camera tends to wash her out to more of a grey. I need to work on that photography wise.

Sadly Falkor was in blue, so we mostly let him be, no pics. And Mom insisted no pics of her as did Karen, so mostly it's all me and Chewie (my "little" brother. When the heck did he get over 6ft!) He loved them! Sharing my critters with my fam? Best birthday gift ever.

"Wake up, Ma-tsu! We have company!"



Here's Chewie chilling with Gomez.





Gomez loves hats, lol.





Given Chewie's size, he and I are a great size reference for Ma-tsu I think! I'm about 5'7 and he's 6' something. Great guy that he is, he's given me permission to put these pics up in the Blue Gorgon photo gallery soon as I get that organized! Beauties are GOOD sized colubrids!





These two I just think are sweet.





Ma-tsu hogging the camera. "No, don't look at him, look at MEE!"



Also, Irwin opted to play Ninja Burger with us.







So, yeah, that about sums it up! There were more snakey cuddles than that, but that's all the pictures I got of it. It was a good week. Hopefully someday we'll live a lot closer.