I didn't get any pictures of the boys and I traveling down. It was a bit crazy with 4 boys and 8 pieces of luggage, and so I didn't even think of capturing any photo's of our flight down.
Joe, on the other hand was taking photos while driving, of an empty Stix terrarium. Stix is our Rosy Boa, well, Calder's Rosy Boa anyway. Joe had a car packed tight with as many fragile belongs as we could fit into it. Including Stix, who couldn't fly and would certainly have died stuck in storage for a month. She didn't know we were doing what was best for her, but she did know that she absolutely hated riding in a car. I am sure the vibrations alone wigged her out. Joe kept watching her in the rear view mirror as she pushed against the ceiling of her cage. It has locks on it, but you never know. After a while, Joe couldn't see Stix in the mirror anymore and so he decided to use the camera on his iphone to take pictures of her cage. This is what he saw when he snapped the shot:
No Stix!! She was gone! The lid was still on her terrarium, but she was no longer inside it!! The great Houdini snake had used her mystical powers to escape! Joe was on the freeway and so he had to wait until he could find a good place to get off the freeway and find her..... He couldn't!! He looked and looked and looked, but couldn't find her. He had to keep driving and just hope for the best. When he finally got down to our temporary housing, he got everything out of the car and tore through it. It was amazing that she had disappeared so completely. Finally as he looked under the seat in the tracks for the seat to move up and back, he found her. Nestled tight... STUCK in the tracking of the seat! It took him forever to get her out, but he did and even without getting bit. I think she was actually really glad to be rescued by him. She huddled down in her cage the next few days and wouldn't eat because it was so traumatic. Poor Stix. She is definitely not loving the move to California.
