Last weekend, downtown Tucson turned into Story Town, our MWFB event for little kids (I will put some photos up and talk more about it in another post.) Well, after Story Town, there were lots of boxes
to be unpacked, reorganized and returned to storage to be used next year. As I was working on unpacking some of these boxes, I discovered a little friend that had decided to join us on the trip back from Story Town. I lifted up one of the boxes and found a small, slithery, brightly colored snake! At first I thought it was one of the MWFB toys for Story Time--we do have a lot of them--but then it started to move. I literally jumped a foot in the air and yelled, "SNAKE!" Now, as most of you 
know, I am generally not a jumpy person when it comes to wildlife, but this little guy totally caught me off guard, and not really being familiar with all of the creatures that live out here in Arizona, I had no idea what kind of snake this must be! I just kept saying "SNAKE! IT'S A SNAKE!" At first, 
my coworkers had no idea what I was talking about, but soon realized we had an unexpected visitor to the office. Mary Jan, my boss came out of her office, very heroically, and checked the little guy out. She and Liz then assembled a very professional snake-catching kit and toted the little guy out of the office, the whole time asking, "How do they do it in the movies?" Needl
ess to say, we were all in stitches the rest of the afternoon as we remembered the freak out over the snake. We ended up letting him go in the bushes behind the office where he will hopefully live a long and happy life (OUTSIDE!). After researching the situation further in our highly technical snake research center (Google), we discovered that he was a baby king snake (they are not poisonous, in case you were worried.) PHEW! I am glad we made it out of work alive that day.
to be unpacked, reorganized and returned to storage to be used next year. As I was working on unpacking some of these boxes, I discovered a little friend that had decided to join us on the trip back from Story Town. I lifted up one of the boxes and found a small, slithery, brightly colored snake! At first I thought it was one of the MWFB toys for Story Time--we do have a lot of them--but then it started to move. I literally jumped a foot in the air and yelled, "SNAKE!" Now, as most of you 
know, I am generally not a jumpy person when it comes to wildlife, but this little guy totally caught me off guard, and not really being familiar with all of the creatures that live out here in Arizona, I had no idea what kind of snake this must be! I just kept saying "SNAKE! IT'S A SNAKE!" At first, 
my coworkers had no idea what I was talking about, but soon realized we had an unexpected visitor to the office. Mary Jan, my boss came out of her office, very heroically, and checked the little guy out. She and Liz then assembled a very professional snake-catching kit and toted the little guy out of the office, the whole time asking, "How do they do it in the movies?" Needl
ess to say, we were all in stitches the rest of the afternoon as we remembered the freak out over the snake. We ended up letting him go in the bushes behind the office where he will hopefully live a long and happy life (OUTSIDE!). After researching the situation further in our highly technical snake research center (Google), we discovered that he was a baby king snake (they are not poisonous, in case you were worried.) PHEW! I am glad we made it out of work alive that day.
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and here i thought you had all kinds of snake experience thanks to mary :)
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