How we fish when Dad is away

Get a bag. Get into a big "pond" filled with fish. Don't freak out at all the fish running into your legs. Scoop up fish with bag or net. And ta-da! Dinner is in the bag.

No Pictures Allowed

Did you know that cameras are not allowed at the Provo pool? Seriously. I totally thought the lifeguard was kidding when she told me. I'll let you ponder on that one for awhile. But as Corbin said, "Good thing I got a few before we got busted."

The Faces of Africa

The promised reservoir

So I was just looking back at my posts and there was a cute picture of Colton in his superman swimsuit on the 4th of July post and I was like, "huh?". So then I remembered I promised to put cool pics of when we went to the awesome Spanish Fork Reservoir with my sister, kids, etc. It's actually kind of cool, besides the super coarse sand. It's just a little man-made place, but it is clean, wet, and free and the kids LOVE it - perfect outing in my opinion.

Gandhi in Africa?

Yes, it's true. He was big there, too. But why exactly do they have a memorial dedicated to him? I'll let you ponder that while you check out these beautiful pics of the day we took a boat out to see this monument at the headwaters of the Nile - "The Source" they call it, where Nile and Lake Victoria meet. It was gorgeous. (It's an interpretive dance, if you can't tell, about the flowing river and swimming in its nice cool waters. I'm pretty sure the boat guy we hired, who was taking the pictures, thought we were seriously crazy. But he said he totally got it.) And there you have it, Gandhi is still floating throughout Africa on this magnificent river. Bet you didn't know that.

Shake your booty

One of the organizations we work with has created a dance group that performs traditional dances at weddings, etc to earn money for school fees. One afternoon they treated us to a private little performance. It was awesome. All the dances consist of shaking your hips/booty the entire time. I was sweating just sitting there, and they were dancing like that for almost an hour! It was really fun to see. Some of them played drums while others danced, and then they switched - they really did have alot of talent. Afterwards, they made us put on the hairy butt things and tried to teach us how to dance. . . I think it was a good laugh for all involved.

As an aside, this performance was taking place in someone's "yard", and so the music of the drums echoing off the adobe house drew quite the audience from the neighborhood. These kids were the cutest . . . The older sister was trying to get her little sister to put some clothes on while the brother was trying to get them to be quiet and quit drawing attention.

Finally the big sister puts lil sis on her back and brother tries to help. Useless, they leave for a few minutes . . .

and return with at least a skirt on the little one. They were so sweet.