April Fool's Joke? NOT!

I had a lovely evening with my husband, my nieces Leah, Rani and Lauren, and Leah's boyfriend Ryan. We watched American Idol and everyone tanned. When the younger ones left, I decided it was my turn to tan. I went to the basement, took off my glasses and put lotion on my arms, chest, and face. When I went over to the bed, I could see something that looked different. Maybe like a dog leash or one of the kids belts. It looked like it was moving. I put on my glasses and then screamed. It was a freakin snake.
Kevin was being my hero, and he trapped it, and brought it out of the basement.

This is what it looked like when we first put it in the box. I was afraid that it was going to get out. YIKS ~

We opened it up on the back porch so that I could get another picture. Then we got in the car and drove down the road to release it. We didn't want it to hang out at our house.

We think that it came from some bulbs that my brother in law gave us last fall. We think that it has been asleep, if they do that, and then since it has been getting warm, because of tanning. He decided that we was going to come out and TAN?

Needless to say, I didn't feel like tanning after all of this excitement. Kevin went down and carried all the bulbs out of the basement. HE knew that I would be afraid to go back down there.

We used to have bats, now snakes. What next?