Seriously??!! Is THAT a boa contractor????????

Today was a first on many accounts. We are taking a medical team to two areas of Honduras we have never been to before. Being the awesome leaders that we are, we decided it would be best to actually go to these places prior to the team coming so we wouldn't accidentally end up in Guatemala with 11 gringos. We piled into the van with two other volunteer couples, Efrain and his wife, and set off to find these places. We had lots of help so finding these two places was not difficult. The furthest location was 2 1/2 hours away from the campground, and it will be the last clinic of the week (thank Goodness). We will need to leave at 6:00 in the morning in order to get there on time. We stopped and ate lunch at a great place and made it back to the campground in plenty of time before dark. Since we hadn't gone to the grocery store, we went out to dinner(any excuse is a good one, don't you think)? After coming back from dinner, Tom got out of the van to unlock the gate leading to the campground. He walks up to the gate and then walks back to the van. He calmly opens the van door and announces there is a large snake on the gate. We, of course, don't believe him because Tom miente (Tom lies). I get out of the van and so does Larry. Sure enough there is a large snake coiled up right beside the gate. Larry goes over and picks up large, heavy rock and drops it on the snake. Something explodes from the side of the snake and the snake is mad (pissed would be more like it). It started striking at the rock that was dropped on it. Larry throws another rock at it and misses it completely. I had a short stick and Tom yells at me to get back (like I was REALLY going to do anything with that little stick). After opening the gate and driving through, Larry goes and gets a shovel and goes to pick up the snake and the stupid thing is still alive and still trying to strike. I told Larry to wait until I could get my camera and get a picture of it so Larry gets it into the light and I take a couple of pictures. Then Larry takes the shovel and wacks its head off. Larry then uses the shovel to get it off the ground before the dogs try to eat it and the rat falls out... Yep, it was a HUGE rat that the snake had eaten prior to it's untimely demise. Gross just doesn't quite describe the feeling. Larry is now the snake whisperer. We had never seen a snake like this before and quite frankly, hope to never see it again.