Snake joins Mommy and Me...

OH MY GOSH, I AM NOT KIDDING!  Today, five of us and our little babies were playing on blankets spread out in the grass in the courtyard, having a lovely time chatting and admiring each other's little bundles of joy.  All of the sudden, Hannah (who is also seven months pregnant) shrieks pretty calmly and  jumps up with her 18 month old because there was a HUGE snake about a foot behind her and Lyric, who had her three week old next to her.  You have never seen five babies snatched off the ground any faster than our babies were as we simultaneously levitated!  That snake was at least four feet long and at least an inch and a half thick and just picking its head off the ground and slithering right past our blankets and us!  It was not scared at all.  In the meantime, five mamas were making quite some noise as we watched this intruder into our sweet playgroup time.  We definitely called public safety and Hannah informed them that we would "prefer the snake not to be there"- they actually came, to their credit, though they did not find and kill the snake, as we would have liked.  We don't think it was poisonous, but it was definitely too big to let live.  Just another day at playgroup...