So it was a beautiful Friday in Provo and Brandon was kind enough to not worry about watching the Jazz game, so we grabbed all kinds of supplies to go to a nice secluded area in a park to play chess and watch a movie on our laptop. It was dusk and getting pretty dark in the shadows of the trees as we were walking through the park. We got a camping lantern for Christmas that we had just rummaged to find batteries for. Even though we didn't really need it yet, I had turned it on and was carrying it out of excitement for having the new toy.
We were staring to the left while we walked so we could look at a large burrow in the bushes, when we heard a rattling noise and a hiss. We glanced forward and stopped suddenly as we looked down at the ground in front of us and the lantern lit up a large rattle snake coiled up ready to strike, right in our path. We were just a few steps from walking right onto it.
We were spooked. We froze, then I slowly backed away while Brandon tried to find something to throw at it until it slithered away into the bushes. Even though the snake left, we couldn't manage to lay our stuff down. If we hadn't had the lantern, I don't know if we would have paid much attention to the noise, we were in the woods after all, and the snake would have been hard to see because of the shadows and the long grass around it.We usually enjoy camping, but yesterday we couldn't even handle relaxing on a blanket in the woods. We had to go home to watch the movie.
3 comments:
It's true, every word of it. I was there! It was pretty scary, but I was prepared to suck out some venom if necessary.
Rebecca, are you doomed? You keep having these narrow escapes from painful deaths. What's the deal?
i killed a snake at chris' grandparents house this weekend...snakes are awful creatures
and technically "brandon the great" you can't suck out venom, it just doesn't work that way (random fact from first aid at BYU)
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