Great story TIS. However, when the kids were little, probably around 10-11 years old I took them camping, my son and two of my daughters. So, their mother and I are sitting in front of the tent watching them wading in the lake right near the shore. All at once they all start darting around, water splashing everywhere and reaching down into the water. I stood up and yelled at them about what they doing. One of my daughters yells back that they were chasing a snake. Of course, I almost went berserk yelling back for them to get the hell out of the water which they did.

You know when something like that happens it's almost like they were really bad. You want to make sure they realize the danger, but yet you are so thankful that nothing really bad happened. The rest of the trip I watched every move they made.