Thank you for the comment! It's great to hear we managed to convey the fright as well as the fascination of the circus.
And thank you very much for catching our slip on the image! I've snagged one which has been verified as a Reticulated Python (from Wikipedia) and posted that to the No Place At All Gallery (That image won't appear in the Snarry Holidays page, since the mods kindly copied the pics to their own site to avoid the LJ Gallery URL giving away our identities before the reveal.)