Pictures from 2009 April Meeting!

northswan04 · Pictures from 2009 April Meeting!

Edgar showing off roaches:

Rachael's snake:

Scabies invading the raffle:

Karl and Kelly protecting the loot :

(sadly Warren said "Look over there! A giant tarantula! " and in the confusion the Scabies made off with a pretty good stash)

A car we saw on the way home:

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llamamama

WOOHOO!!! SFBATS ROCK!

Major brownie points to Edgar for making sure we got PR! Denise, I'm so glad you and your husband could make it! Warren, it was great meeting you! Scott, I wish Kiely could have been here, but I'm glad you and Logan made it. Francisco, it was good to see you again. John, you get more creative every time I see your cages. Rachel, I couldn't keep the Spider Queen cards on the table! Cody, thanks for the tanks! Ken, thanks for the T's. Lony, thanks for the millis! Fred, I'm SO glad you were able to make it!

THAT WAS A BLAST! Anyone want to hazard a guess at how many people came through today?

northswan04

I would definitely place the # at or near 100 people. That news article did a lot for us, I retract earlier statments. And it was fantastic seeing so many interested kids with their parents. Are we going to need a bigger place or what?

thebugwife

More than 100 for sure! We can have the room upstairs, its bigger, we just can't eat upstairs:(

EdgarOrtega

Gosh... I was at an SFBATS meeting, and I didn't get a photo of a single tarantula. lol

Crazy, right?!

Oh well! Imagine the theme to Charlie's Angels playing as you scroll.

SFBATS Girls!

And the steamiest Angel of all....

Skippy!

llamamama

Whew! That is definitely steamy! Maybe we should make Skippy our poster boy!

BayLee

Nice pictures. I will have mine up soon
SFBATS Angels, I love it...
And look at Dee's great hair. I am so jealous!

Arachnocat

AWESOME! I had so much fun today. Can't wait to see your pics Lony!

Bonedog

It was great to see everybody today. Sorry I had to show up late and leave early but work calls. Fred, it was good to see you there, my son really likes his new spider. John, the magnet looks great on my old truck, makes it look quite classy. Laurie, thanks for holding on to my prize, Kiely took it away from me as soon as I got home.

Lony, hope you enjoy your new spider, always good to see you. Skippy, I'm going to have to get down there to fish with you this year.Warren and all the the SCABIES that showed, it was great to meet all of you, quite an enthusiast crowd you are.

Rachel, I've got to get cool labels like you have. Edgar, you disappear so quickly it's hard to talk to you, you're so popular! All of the rest of the SFBATS, SCABIES and anyone else that was there, thanks for making it worth the drive. I love to meet other enthusiast. See you next time.

Bonedog

My hugest regret was forgetting my camera today.

EdgarOrtega

Yes, I was asked and wondered my self, "Where did Scott go? He disappeared!"

Sorry that you could not stay long. I know you had a big drive both ways; shows you like being a part of SFBATS. Your cage went FAST! It was nice. :)

Wish we could have chatted more. Today was CRAZY! CRAZY awesome.

Arachnocat

I brought my camera, but it was so busy I barely had time to take any pics!!

llamamama

Same here! I had the camera on me, and kept forgetting to use it, because I was so busy! lol

Arachnocat

Here's a few of mine:

My snake got A LOT of attention today! lol!

darth skippy

i left my camera at home but this is what i got:
female rcf rosie

male rcf rosie (can't wait for hooks

)

brachypelma vagans that i won in the raffle

poecilotheria fasciata that ricky gave me instead of gas money

avic avic i got from laurie

giant asian mantid baby!

what a haul!

EdgarOrtega

A pokie instead of gas money!

That's good stuff.

darth skippy

that's what i'm sayin'!

SeanCasey

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/searchpopup?picId=9850744

EdgarOrtega

Hey, cool! All is on Reuters! Very cool. Who knows how many press people were there at the meeting.

BayLee

Here are my pictures.

First off I like to thank all of you. This was a great event.

Fred, it was great to see you and nice to meet your brother.

Edgar you did a great job with the PR, well done. I wonder if an article will come out?

Dee, it was very nice to finally meet you and Sean. Thanks for your boy. He is right now resting next to my female. I will put a piece of my females web into his enclosure tonight. What is his name? If you told me I forgot, sorry.
Next time you have to stay longer. Like you said lets make it a birthday weekend and get into lots of trouble.

Rachel, I love your L. parahybana enclosure you do such a good job with the plants. Maybe one day I will try it.
Oh, and I am in love with your RTB. What a sweetie!

Laurie, I know the millipedes do well in your care. Let me know how it goes. Your cages are so cool!
Tell Al I loved all the T's he brought, just wow!

John, your cages are just fabulous. You are so good with decorating them. Your title has been modified to Ambassador/Education Specialist/Interior Tarantula Cage Decorator.

Ken, thanks for the bringing the G. pulchra sling. I am all

. Georgi thanks for the coffee this morning!

Ricky, I can't wait to see your pictures.

Thanks to the Scabies members for spreading the itch!!!

Scott, thanks for my L parahybana, when I got home I fed her, she loved her roach. She sure is pretty. Logan it was great to meet you.
You must have left fast, I saw you for 5 minutes and that was it.

Mitch... ah Miguel, the B. emilia is eating as well. Great looking T. Hopefully one day I can beed her/him.
Good luck with my boy.

James, great you came. Make this a regular thing.

And to all of our guests who showed up today! You made this whole event a blast. Come back again please.

Ok, here are the pictures:

The crowd early on, it looked much more packed later.

Dee and Sean

Rachel with her RTB

Rachel's L. parahybana enclosure

Al's collection

My skin was itching by the time I got to this table

Roach (sorry, I don't know the name of this species)

Carpet Python

SF BAT

Cool poster John got from his son

This looks like trouble

Ken, Rachel, Edgar and John posing in front of his new Truck.

More pictures can be seen here in the slide show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaylees/sets/72157617240223717/show/

BayLee

DeeCasey · Post Pictures

Gang,

It was so nice to finally meet everyone in person! What a great group of *wonderful* People! I enjoyed talking with all the members and gretting the public.
The trip was long but worth every minute of it!
It was wonderful to see the public turnout because of the newpaper article! Excellent Spring Fling SFBATS

Here are some of the photos I took.

llamamama

Great pics, Dee! Thanks for taking them, since I kept forgetting!

Pacmaster

Yeah, looks like everyone had a good time . . .
I spent the afternoon on the side of the road in Davis waiting for my buddy to come pickup my broke-down Ford Exploder . . .
Had 4 snakes, a lizard, and about 15 tarantulas, not to mention the cubecages I had made up for raffle prizes . . .
The 1 thing I didnt have- anybodies phone # to let them know what was happening.
I saw James in those pics, he had some Ts for me, edgar had the snake for me . . .
I guess I shoulda called James to let him know so he could tell everyone, sorry I didnt even think of it . . .
Now, I am sooo lucky cause I get to go out and fix my damn car . . .
I tried guys, sorry I couldnt make it, I really need to get rid of that car, but I hate puttin miles on my truck . . .

darth skippy

that sucks man... i was wondering if i met you or not 'cause i didn't get everyones name

i know all about not wanting to take the truck(my '60 f100 is LOUD)

all your critters ok?

UglyKid2

Thanks for posting all the great pics, Denise. A lot of us were kind of in shock at all the people and didn't take many so you saved the day. That first one of me looks like you caught " The Kid" in the act doing something wrong! LOL It was great to see you guys there, thanks for coming

Pacmaster

CodeWilster

BayLee

Nice pictures Dee. Yours really show the crowd. It was packed.
There are some real priceless pictures. I like the one of the woman holding the millipede...lol

sntcruzan

Pac, thanks for trying to make it to the meeting. We will see you at the Summer meeting.
Fred

Synn

ZOMG looks like there were a BUNCH of people this time, time to find a bigger place I think!

I'm SO sad I didn't make it you guys! D: Things ended up being crazy this weekend and I was too emotionally drained to see people x.x Sorry guys. NEXT TIME!
aw MAN so NOW theres asian giant mantids, gah! curses.

darth skippy

they were only $10 too

i couldn't resist!

DeeCasey

No problem John! Thank you to you and all the BATS for making us feel welcome! I also appreciate everyone taking the time to talk to us during a very busy day!
I look forward to the next meeting!

rosenkrieger

That roach is a peppered.

Great pics every one!

We had a great time.

EdgarOrtega

I found some great pics, on the daylife.com website, taken by a photographer who was at the meeting. She got some good pics of Cody, Denise, and Al. hehe Click on the pics for the captions.

Woohoo! Check it out.
http://www.daylife.com/search?q=tarantulas

llamamama

Cool! Thanks for the link, Edgar!

BayLee

Nicely done Edgar.

CodeWilster

Thanks Edgar for the link! I found a lot of others on google as well. There's pics of SFBATS ppl and spiders everywhere!

Now has anybody found any articles anywhere yet?

EdgarOrtega

herpetologyfrk

Thanks for the invite.

I had a great time guys =]

Thanks, Nick

CodeWilster

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kaTra

I just wanted to thank everyone for an awesome time on Saturday! It was craziness! I'm thrilled at the number of people that attended!

What a success!

I also wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to the main members of SFBATS that continue to make all of this happen with their hard work and dedication! I hope that some of you received and enjoyed my little gift that I left with John (my mini comic "arachnofiles" and stickers!)... It's just my little way of saying thank you to you guys, hopefully I can get more involved once time frees up a little bit for me!

Now I just have to figure out how to post pictures on the forum! (and get my avatar thingy up... I dont frequent forums much!)

EdgarOrtega

UglyKid2

Sorry, there weren't enought for everybody. I'll loan you mine

It's pretty amazing because the whole book was done, text, pics, everything in 24 hours

kaTra

aww thanks for the complements!

If you guys are really interested, I can send a couple out if you want, just pm me! I'm planning on sending one to Robert from insect geeks! (prolly not for another couple weeks though!)

Also, I know this is off topic, but regarding posting pictures, is there a "how to" on the forum? I'd like to share my pics in a couple of the topics... Also, how do you get a picture under your name on the left of the screen?

Thanks for the help!

I really enjoyed the posted pictures, as I think someone mentioned-- the one with the lady and the millipede is classic!!

a7051

wow, that looked crowded. i remember when it was like 10 of us meeting at Ken's house hah.

i'm just so damn busy, must graduate.. (walking may 23) so much s**t to get done in the meantime... and couldn't make it out. always next time though..

awesome pics though gang. i almost felt like i was there.

Ricky Ortiz84

ok well here are my pics nothing great just mainly crowd shots cuz I was shocked at how many people there were.

CodeWilster

Awesome pictures Ricky!!! Thanks for sharing!

BayLee

Thanks for capturing the crowd Ricky.

wburke17

llamamama

ROFL!

BayLee

Warren, great pictures.

My neck hurts.

YOu were not kidding about Laurie's picture...lol

llamamama

LOL! It would have been even better if he'd remembered to put the tarantula in the picture, too!

UglyKid2

Great pics, Warren, thanks for posting. I see you caught the llamamama in her most frequent pose, lol!

EdgarOrtega

Hey you got a shot of Marlene in the crowd.

All those other pics, and I didn't see her.

northswan04

I know! This is the first picture EVER of me at an SFBATS meeting and I've been to bunches, lol. I was starting to think I was like a vampire, couldn't be caught on film!

darth skippy

not like a vampire... more like a ninja

Arachnocat

That's why I took a self portrait, just in case. So I would have PROOF I was there! LOL! There's lots of pics of me though

EdgarOrtega

Did anyone get pics of me? lol

Marlene, you always disappear so quickly. Stick around and I will make sure you get your picture taken. I haven't gotten one with you, yet. You're too slippery. :p

Joeseph

I have only ever seen the back of my head, I disapear into a crowd really well so ha ! goodluck with that one.. I dont do photos so I'll avoid the cameras if I can.

DeeCasey

That's because you are so photogenic, Rachel and you had alot of cool stuff at your table!

darth skippy

i'm not to into photos of me either but my spacial awareness is not so good off the boat

especially when there's cool stuff to goggle at, i'm easily distracted and get in the way of the lense

EdgarOrtega

darth skippy

she spelled my name wrong! how hard is ABBEY? my last name is not short for abigail!

geeeeez... you'd think a reporter would know better

Arachnocat

Hah! They always spell my last name wrong. I spell it to them every time EDLER but they always put ELDER. I would be really shocked if they actually got my name right for once. lol.
At the chronicle interview I spelled it for the reporter and the photographer and gave them each my business card, and it was still spelled wrong in the article. Not that it matters really, it's just funny.

BayLee

Most people spell my name Loni or Lonny Myers.
Carolyn from SFBATS got it right, becasue I spelled it for her.. lol

Arachnocat

It's ok! It happens all the time.

CodeWilster

It sure does happen a lot! If you look at it they spelled my last name "Wil" and it's actually "Will". I even watched her write it down RIGHT when she asked me

ftorres

OK finally Pics are here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wburke17

Nice pictures nut wheres all the VIDEO????

ZergFront

Aaaaaw, the kid with the tarantula touched me... (sniff)

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