Just thought I'd say this picture my Dad emailed me today...

Background: In his retirement, my dad started a new business traveling the world to photo- and video-document missonary work on site, which he then prepares as slide shows and videos which the missionary organization can use for promotion, description, etc. of their work.

Last year, he went to Costa Rica to document the work of a neat organization that sends American (and I believe Canadian) doctors into extremely secluded areas of the jungle to help provide free medical services to the national peoples of the region. Neat stuff - two day hike just to get these places.

Anyway, these jungles are full of big scary snakes, as you well know!

When I told Dad that Rick and I about our new baby girl, he emailed this photo from his Costa Rican trip. It was taken the last day while they were at the village of a 9' fer-de-lance that the guide had seen within a few yards of their campsite. Unfortunately (for the snake), the animal had to be killed, but like, wow...check this dude out...



(In the photo is one of the doctors on the trip and the American liason guide).

On the same trip, they also encountered a bushmaster while hiking in and Mom, amazingly, stepped on the damn thing and it didn't strike. /shudder