Today I had a table at the Antwerp "Naturaria' expo. I had some good sales, met some new and seen some familiar faces. Realy had a blast at the fair!
An hour before the expo closed,2 guys walk up to my table and make some chat. Very funny guys, had the idea they know a lot about frogs, turns out these guys only live a 15 minute drive from my home, had some more laughs... Yall know how meeting new people get be fun. One of the guys gives me some compliments about the tumucumaque offspring and asks me if he could buy 5. Happy to help ofc. We both try to guess probable males, females etc... Deal is done. Have some more chat about pumilio and they showed me some very neat pictures of a trip they went on to find the pumilio, so I was realy glad to meet them and to have this interesting talk. Asked if I could join them to panama next time 😄
Now the expo was almost over, we packed up our stuff and went to the exit. At the exit of the convention an exo terra salemen runs up to us like his life depends on it and shout whats size shirts we have? Me and my wife told him out size and he asked if we have a minute to wait. He gives us 2 shirts of the exo terra " expedition bocas del toro". Very cool, but I did not get why we got shirts. Guess we got lucky somehow? In hindsight here is were I should yave put the pieces together...
When we came home I read some brochures I picked up at the fair and at the first page i look at I see the guy that bought the 5 tumucumaque! It turns out he is no one less than Emmanuel Van Heygen, the founder of exo terra himself! How cool is that!? Im still a litlle shocked, he and his friend realy were the nicest guys I've met all day.
I realy wanted to share this story, its not every day you get to sell some frogs to such a big name and gamechanger of our hobby!
Made my day!!
