Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Why did the turtle cross the road?

Yesterday BJ took me, Mallory, and Uncle Andy to an exotic pet store here in Vegas. I'll admit, moseying in pet stores is not exactly my idea of a good time, but it was great because 1) BJ knows something about practically every animal in there and turns into an excited kid as soon as he walks in the door so his excitement inevitably rubs off, 2) They had some really cool reptiles including:

Spotted turtles

A baby Bearded Dragon and a full grown one - look at the difference! (I like the cute little one :))

Awesome snakes including this Boa Constrictor


And the most toxic reptile in the world - the Blue Dart Frog (The worker told us that it got its name because Indians used to rub arrows over the frog's skin so that anything the arrow pierced was infected with the poison and dropped dead on site),

And 3) They had a big turtle just wandering around the store! Maybe he was shopping for a new hat?


1 comment:

Julie said...

that's so funny that the turtle was wandering....

ps. we're in vegas right now, but i don't know how much longer you'll be here...