Sounds like a blast! It's about to be 9 months of crappy winter here, so it's too cold to do anything fun T_T

Your sooo lucky though. I wish we had "exotic" nature here. All we have in the way of reptiles/amphibians is wood frogs...which..it's cool that they freeze solid in the winter and thaw in the summer, but still...What I would give to go herping down in the states!

You can't imagine how awesome going down to florida/Alabama/south states, 3 years ago was for me. Scorpions, frogs, snakes, lizards, tortoises!! Bahhh it was great.