Sssssss!

"Hey look!" exclaims Gio. "There's a REAL snake!"

Hoping for a stick looking like a snake, I turn around, and look where Gio is pointing. There, in the weeds lies a snake.

"I wonder if it's alive?" I ask.

Vinny walks over to the snake to investigate whether it's alive.

"It's blinking so it's alive," reports Vinny.

We got out of there in a hurry, since at the time we didn't know it was a harmless Gopher snake. Or that snakes don't have eyelids so they can't blink.

Though snakes must have an easier time putting in their contact lenses, except, of course, for the no hands part. That would be hard.

Do Snakes Have Eyelids?

The rest of the way home, all I heard was, "Oh look there's another snake!" Proving that frightening your Brother, and Mother, are as entertaining as seeing a snake in real life.