Dixie Reptile Show

The above picture is Leeland in the car on the way to Birmingham. He was such a good boy! Birmingham is about 4 hours away from us. Brent wanted to be there close to opening time, which was 10 a.m., so that meant we had to leave EARLY! Brent and I got up at 5:30 a.m.! I waited until the last second to wake Leeland up, and just changed his diaper and left his PJ's on. We left our house about 6 a.m. and headed to Dunkin Donuts for some wake-up coffee! I put a portable DVD player on the back of Leeland's seat for the trip, since he is still rear-facing and can't see the one installed in the van. I thought for sure he would go back to sleep, but he enjoyed watching a Little People DVD.

The day trip to Birmingham was very fun! Brent and I had never been to a reptile show before, so it was a cool experience. As far as shows go, it was not very big, but there was enough for us to look at! There were some awesome animals there, and some of the most interesting and beautiful snakes we've seen so far! One of my favorites was a banana morph ball python. The baby bearded dragons were so cute and had such nice color! I was very tempted to bring one home! After looking around, we decided to purchase a young adult female gargoyle gecko, and a baby crested gecko. Both geckos are settled in nicely at our home now, and are doing well! We also bought a BUNCH of bugs for feeders! A box of 1,000 crickets AND superworms! We also got superworm food from the guy selling the insects, so he gave us these worms he called reptiworms for free to try. He said that they have the nutritional value of two crickets.. whatever.. they are gross, most of the geckos won't eat them, and we don't like them! They are actually just black fly larvae.. YUCK!

After we had everything we needed, we decided to go back home since it was still pretty early in the afternoon. We were wiped by the time we got home and got everything we needed for our new additions and got them settled in their new homes.

As for the photos from the show, the first on is a Piebald morhp ball python.. that animal is amazing! It's so expensive because of all the white it has. Most Piebalds just have floating "islands" of white.

The second one is baby leopard turtles! I held a baby redfoot, but the pic that Brent took is blurry. I want a turtle SO BAD, but it's illegal to have them as pets in TN!

The third and forth ones are of the adorable baby bearded dragons.

The fifth photo is of the Banana morph ball python that I liked so much.