We were met at Dallas/Fort Worth airport by Micheal, my sister’s fiance. He drove us to their place in Plano. Those crazy Yanks! Driving on the right (i.e., wrong) side of the road! Lisa (my ex-pat sister) arrived a few minutes after we got in. After the customary cheek kissing and back slapping, we talked (I think). I hadn’t seen Lisa since she left the country a few years ago.
I’d asked her to round up some Texan Rattlesnakes for me, but she’d had no luck in that department. So the next day (Thursday) Alecia and I went to the Dallas World Aquarium in downtown Dallas. It was set out quite nicely, but only a couple of the exhibits had signs on them, so it was quite hard to figure out was was in any particular enclosure. The next day (Friday) Alecia and I went for a walk to try to find some rattlesnakes. There aren’t too many of them in the streets of Plano, but we did see our first American squirrel. When we got back to Lisa’s place Micheal, Alecia and I went to see X-Men 3.
The next day (Saturday) Lisa, Alecia and I went to the opening of the new Dallas Museum of Nature and Science (or something like that). Darryl Sprout (a fellow herpetologist) was doing some live animal presentations there, so I wanted to go and meet him in the flesh. Darryl’s a great guy, and he gave us the names of some places were we might be able to see wild rattlesnakes. So the next day (Sunday) Lisa, Alecia and I headed out to Cedar Something reserve to find some rattlesnakes. We didn’t see any rattlesnakes, but we did see some dragon-like lizards and a legless lizard-like lizard. Photos to come later.
The next day (Monday) we went to White Lake something-or-other to try to find (yep, you guessed it) rattlesnakes, and we might have found one! I successfully caught and wrangled a road-killed snake of some sort. I have to try to ID the pictures later on. But it might have been a rattler!
That night Alecia and I flew down to Sao Paulo, Brazil…
