You know you watch too much E Television. . .

When your 1 year old takes a clue from Paris Hilton and starts auditioning new friends.

We went to Cape Town recently (loved it!) and the whole time Wendy pretended to be part of other groups. I felt like she was bored of us and wanted to see what life was like with other families. Should I take a hint? It all started in the aquarium at a puppet show. . .

This contestant sister was too much of a downer. Scared of puppets? Please. NEXT!


The apprentice-sister here threatened to beat Wendy up. Little does she know, Wendy packs a nasty judo-chop which she attempted to use before we intervened.


Pack your knives and go, cuz you're voted off.


. . . and continued at the beach.

These girls didn't want Wendy to get too close--she out-foxed them all. The tribe has spoken.


This girl didn't really know what to do about the situation, since she was in the middle of wooing some guy. Lame. America has voted and you're definitely in the bottom two.


This family won. (They had the most toys.) Wendy said "YOU'RE FIRAHHD" to the rest of the contestants.


Wendy even tried out some more couples on the plane ride home (Emron wouldn't let me take a picture.) On the plane, we didn't mind handing Wendy off so much. Still, no more reality tv for us. . . until we can catch up with Project Runway. We'll make it work!

I'm sold

The picture from the previous post is from a contender for the best vacation we've had in Africa yet. We went to a place called Drakensburg which is a hiker's paradise. There are plenty of mountains, streams and lakes to keep any outdoorsy person with unused performance-wear busy for days. Emron and I went on a hike and a few horseback rides.




But the awesomeness of the whole experience came in the resort where we stayed. "The Cavern" is a family resort, catering to young kids especially well. They have a separate kids dining room where you feed your kids food they like on plates they can't break and then leave them with a bunch of nannies to play on swings, jungle gyms, with toys, and watch movies. You eat a four course meal in the "adult" dining room. . . in total peace. That alone was awesome. To top it off, you could order a babysitter at anytime for super cheap so you can do adult things (like hiking and horseback riding). The babysitters take the kids to all the kid activities (like crafts and scavenger hunts and can even do pony rides with them). Did I say awesome???



Awesome. I'm sold.

Thinking Deep

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This photo may make you introspective. Don't fight it. Seeing myself perched on a rock over a babbling brook in Africa would do that to anybody. To aid you on your journey, consider the following philosophical gem:

"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind."

If you can give me the name of the philosopher, you win.

Can't post pictures

Anyone know what to do if every time I try to create a new post, the tool bar with the option to add pictures fails to appear? This happened once before and lasted for a couple weeks, then all of a sudden, the tool bar came back. What am I doing wrong?