I'm Lotus from Northern IL. I don't technically have any snakes of my own right now, but I'm 'godmother' to my partner's Nicaraguan boa and I've got designs on an axanthic BP, and a sunglow boa (when my friend's breeding pair matures in 3 years... /stares at calendar). I've also got the very beginnings of a rat colony, my first preggo girl is due to pop sometime in the next couple weeks. Thats where most of my disposable income is going at the moment, but I'm trying to squirrel some away for the NARBC Tinley show in October. It'll be my first big show (I've gone to Scott Smith's in Wheaton once, and I helped my boa-breeder friend at a show at UIC a while back), and I'm seriously hyped.