Photos from the Tenth Annual
American Tarantula Society Conference
July 2008
Rio Rico, Arizona
First, a view of the beautiful surrounding area!

Some mixer shenanigans. I can pick out Wade (what is he up to?), Christian, Bill King, Missy, Garrett's head, and June.

Ms. Megan Mumford doing some sexing.

There's Pat and Missy!

Krazy 8's had a pretty popular table at the spider mall

Chris was lucky. I almost never tell anyone to say cheese!

The view from behind the ATS table

Ms. Megan doing something important.

Celeste and Payton, and a wandering male that was found. I also see Roger, and a cute little girl in there. I think that adorable critter belongs to Wade and Beth.

Alex

Very pretty area with some ATS peoples wandering around in the background. You can't miss Christian in that shirt!

Emily and Alex

Rhys contemplates the peanut shell.

troll has something neat. Christian, turn off that shirt!

Drawing a crowd now are we? That's Ollie, a little bit of Kari, troll, Hunter, a wee it of Carla, sorry I don't know who that is in the blue shirt, and Rick.

Lecture crowd

Speaker G.B. Edwards during the opening presentation of the day.

Pretty hummingbird mom outside the conference room

Payton autographing some CDs... awww, look, he's modest, too!

The view from behind Brandon (Reptist)'s table. That's Dawn there in the black T-shirt, and Kaylin in green.

You can see Brandon in the background there, way across the room. I wonder if he knew I was behind his table. 

Hunter, Ben and Roger

Presenter Brent Karner

Payton really knows how to engage an audience!

Rick Foss, Pre-Raffle.

More raffle stuff!

Carla and Rick really deserve a round of applause for being chained to the raffle table the whole conference and doing a great job of calling out the winners and giving out all the prizes!

Seriously. The Raffle. It was, like, a full house.

Kaylin and friend

Somebody had alot of tickets.

Elizabeth, Megan and Garrett are about to rake it in.

Rosemary Kraft was presented with a plaque of appreciation for being the only person who has attended all 10 ATS conferences! (It was hidden inside the blue folder as a surprise)

The beautiful fountain right outside my door.

Sunday field trip gearing up. I spy G.B. Edwards, Missy, June, Emily, and I see Mike Mulé and Payton in the background, with Elizabeth sitting way back in the corner.

I'm thinking Rhys must have some really cool bug on his shoe.
