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Take Your Kids to Work and Hang Out With a Snake

Today was "Take Your Kids To Work" day at CNET. I brought my whole family. The first half of the day was pretty challenging as Tyler seemed to be in a bad mood. Riccardo from Gamespot brought in a Wii and, with suggestions from the kids, created the ugliest Mii I've ever seen. Then some of the kids played Wii Tennis. We also checked out the podcast recording studio as well as CNET TV's studio. As I mentioned previously, Tyler was in somewhat of a bad mood throughout all of this. It also didn't help that during lunch they served little burritos with hot salsa. Tyler took a bite and after a few seconds stuck out his tongue and started crying loudly. We gave him some cold water, love and a quesadilla which calmed him down. After lunch Emily took Jillian home for her nap while Tyler stayed with me for the remainder of the day's activities. The second half of the day definitely went much better. We did chocolate tasting with the folks from CHOW. One of the samples was bittersweet chocolate which Tyler declared "yucky". Then we took pictures of stuff with the folks from Webshots. But the highlight of the day came when the folks from Tree Frog Treks (not affiliated with CNET) came in to share some of their animals with the kids. The cool thing is that they let some of their turtles and one Burmese Python roam freely throughout the room. Tyler was in love with the python and followed it around everywhere petting it. Every once in a while it would crawl into a corner under a chair at which point the handler would come over to pick it up and carry its head while the kids all got to pitch in and carry its body. Tyler was right there to help out every time the python needed carrying. He also got to hold a smaller snake and a frog all by himself (not at the same time, mind you). This was easily Tyler's favorite part of the day.
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We capped off the day with the movie Flushed Away. Want to know which gags got the biggest laughs from the kids? ... Crotch hits.