Richmond Repitle Expo - Wrap UP!

Was a decent show! We had such a steady flow of traffic, that I never got to eat. Made several sales and met some really nice folks from VAHERPS. Nick - thank you for the purchase, it was a pleasure meeting you and Brian from Jabberwocky Dragons. Y'all drove quite a way to be here. David Means and his daughter Brianna were very helpful in assisting us with set up and take down of our table. Nicole (NFarrow) stopped by as well and picked up a nice little pastel. And, Romping stopped by to say hello. If any more people stopped by, they did not let themselves be known and I was really sorry I did not meet Stray. I've never met someone with the personality of a common sea horse. I've met a few with the personality of fancy sea horses, but never a common one.

Thanks to all who came out. It turned out to be a very good show - lots of vendors and lots of visitors.

Thanks Don, it was great meeting you and your wife too! As great as the pics you post here are, they still don't do your snakes justice in person!

Thanks Don!! My new snake is GORGEOUS!

This show was a total blast and I had more fun than any other show yet. Saw some great animals and met a bunch of great people. Next time I'll have a VaH shirt on, so if you see it, say hi or throw old veggies!

Don,


Bre and I had a great time hanging out with you and your wife. Bre is so happy with the wonderful gift you two gave her. I also enjoyed meeting and talking with members of the VAHERPS crew.

It was great meeting everyone! My family and I had a blast at the show. There were alot of great looking animals. I ended up with 3 new additions to the family...the little pastel (thanks again Don, she's gorgeous), a little male yellow belly and a little female striped rootbeer cornsnake...all in all a really great show!!

If you didn't make it, Richmond Reptile Expo has put some pics on their Facebook page. Check them out. There is even one of a very handsome fellow with a Plethora of Pythons shirt!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richmond-Reptile-Expo/248591198500885

I was there, but only for the last hour or so of the show XD Like I said, all my friends canceled on me, so I goaded my mom into going before we went to see a movie. I promised her she could see all the baby beardies, so if you saw a crazy woman ranting about baby beardies with a teenage guy and 20-something girl, that was totally me

Also, I really wanted a gorgeous female YB, but I had to talk myself out of it so I could have grocery money. I hate being paid bi-weekly and having all my bills do at the beginning of the month :/

EDIT: Does anyone know/know of the vendor in the back right corner, right behind Max Pet? He had a couple people at the table, he was in the very back and had mostly BPs. He had a female YB that I would really, really be interested in... in like two weeks... >_>

Stray, I remember more than one person walking by us saying something about a yellow belly. Next time, stop and say hello! I don't have any yellow belly genes in my collection but am thinking about adding them this year, after hearing so many people talk about it.

I can tell you that I'm exhausted right now. I've been classified as an introvert by the most popular personality test and things like this take a lot out of me. After getting home and putting my snakes away, we went out to dinner. After that, I came home and took my pieds out of the incubator and into hatchling racks and started feeding cards on them. Then did a few other small chores in the reptile room.

Then I cleaned up some of my displays and started putting them away. I've got a ton of work still left to do. However, I don't regret a second of it. We met some great people today and had a great time. I think it is getting close to bed time now.

I would've stopped but I was too busy making sure mom didn't walk out with any beardies XD She took probably every beardie breeder's card there haha

I'm glad you survived the show! Vending would be super scary to me, as I royally suck at talking to people. I bet all your critters are happy to be home!

I think the guy I'm looking for was right next to Soutshside Serpents. He had a 2012 female YB and she was going into shed but was absolutely gorgeous. I'd really be interested in her in a paycheck or two lol

Man it sounds like it was a good time. Hopefully I will not be outta the state for the next one. I have looked up some shows here in San Diego, and I realized i missed the one close but there is a NARBC show in Anaheim that im gonna try to go to in Sept.

Grymm, that show is supposed to be a great one. Be sure to take a lot of photos of Anaheim. Not many of us east coasters get to see that one.

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Grymm, that show is supposed to be a great one. Be sure to take a lot of photos of Anaheim. Not many of us east coasters get to see that one.

I wish I could go to an NARBC show!!!

Yeah i was excited to find out that i would be here for it. I will defiantly take lots of pictures and hopefully send a few things back home.

Sadly we didn't make it... I had a rough Saturday, took some medicine and woke up at almost noon yesterday.. and it was my mother-in-laws birthday.... so we were a little bit busy. Hope everyone had a blast and picked up a few additions to their collections!

hi everyone im new here we left norfolk at 8am and was early waiting at the door my first show was looking at dragons there were some beauties there i didnt pull the trigger the ones i really liked were up there 200 and 250 but i really enjoyed it i think theres one in nn in oct 7 so ill be there

I couldn't go, but it sounds like everyone had a blast Maybe next time, and by then we'll all have VAHerps merch, so we can tell us apart from the random joe POST PICS of your new pick ups!!!!!

Wow, Nick, nice!!!

Is that a Queen Bee?

Thanks! Its a Bumblebee Mojave from Don.

Congrats to you for the buy and Don for the production. That snake is gorgeous!

Nice animal. Congrats . And nice work Don.

Thanks. Glad he went to a good home. He really is a nice animal with three very useful genes.

Beautiful Nick! Good Job Don!

Thanks! I think he's been sniffing out my new female lemon blast in the tub below. Maybe true love?

Maybe, I guess you will just have to put them together when it's time and see