Snake Tales

Now that the snake story has broken, here is Kate's version of it.

FROM KATE'S E-MAIL YESTERDAY . . .

Yesterday, while hanging out in the ocean, Erin's tie on her swimsuit kept coming out. It was black and white striped, so when Krissi saw something long and thin with the said pattern floating in the ocean, she picked it up and said, "Erin, you dropped your... AAAAAAAAAAGHHH!!!!" Turns out it was a watersnake. She was so freaked that she was verging on hyperventilation, so we tried to calm her down by telling her that the guides said that they didn't have any poisonous snakes. So we were on the bus, getting ready to head home, and we told the snake story. The delegation leader said that
black and white striped snakes are one of the only three poisonous Fijian snakes. (Turns out they don't have any poisonous spiders.) HAHA Snakes . . . spiders . . . there is something in Fiji that's not poisonous.

Makes you feel pretty good about sending them out in the world doesn't it?

Denise Mersmann