Gina and I continued our hiking this week by taking a trail from Canyon up a ridge to Sibley Regional Volcanic Preserve. Along the way (and before we saw the rain showers developing in the distance), we came across a very pretty baby Pacific Gopher snake. Gina emptied her backpack, we headed straight down the trail (while using our phones to research the viability of a gopher snake as a pet), and then spent the rest of the afternoon in the Berkeley Vivarium picking out a tank, heater, thermostat, grape branches, etc. Sibley's head is so tiny we had to also buy frozen baby mice, which she will only eat when everyone has left the room. As Nate said, "This is the best day of my life!"
