Savior of the frogs

My parents, sister and I went on a day trip on Thursday. We went to this little town called Placitas. And it is BEAUTIFUL. We just drove around, looked at property. Cuz why not? Anyway, we were driving down this dirt road when we decided it was time to head home. We pull into someones driveway, and turn around. We're driving back down this dirt road, and my dad suddenly says, "Wow. Would you look at that! There's a ton of tadpoles over here!" So, of course, my mom makes him stop. And she jumps out of the car. And then comes back, and gets a SOLO cup(we had a ton in the car...I have no idea why). Autumn and I joined her. This is a picture I took BEFORE we touched ANY of the tadpoles.

Sorry, it was taken with my iPod...it sorta sucks. Also, keep in mind, this is about HALF of the puddle.

That is a whole heck of a lot of tad poles.


My mom, sister and I gathered up SO MANY of these tad poles. Cuz, being the saints that we are, we wanted to save them. All of them. But we couldn't. There were so many still there when we left. We had 4 solo cups and a water bottle full of tadpoles.

Another crappy iPod picture. My bad.

Anyway. We urged my dad to drive really fast, and I had my sister prepare some tupperware tubs for us, and we dumped 'em in as soon as we were home.

So, yeah. We saved like, 250 tadpoles. They were PACKED. We had two families come and take some, cuz what the poo are we gonna do with 250 frogs? Some of them died on the trip, and some have died since then. Actually, they like eating each other...a lot...

We have a few frogs. I have a NON-iPod picture for you. Get ready. You should be excited.

Sorry, the exposure is way high, I just didn't feel like fixing it. That's Stephen and I, each holding a toad, over the basin of tadpoles.

Basically, this made my Friday a bit exciting and I felt like you guys should see it. ;)

This counts as my "Awesome Thursday" for last week. ;)