You speak pretty good English!

on the beach the other day...
random atv-er, obviously vacationing and driving up the beach-
He stops and says- "Restaurant-O Gaston-O?"
Me- "It's right there" (Pointing to the only building within sight, maybe 100 feet away)
Him- "You speak pretty good English! Thanks"
atvs away

(I was with 8 very Mexican looking children. on a beach full of Mexican people, maybe he really thought I was Mexican!)

I learned that fire burns better in the wind, but that it's also harder to start. We ate roasted hot dogs to our hearts content with the kids that day, but not before someone else on the beach helped us to start the fire :)

that whole thing about killing the ants with my bare hands...
It's more like whack-a-mole with my index finger.
You wipe them out of the cupboard onto the counter and then poke them until they are all dead.

My sister is so grown up. :)


Happy Friday!

(oh, my other creature stories that I had forgotten...)

Fish:
We went to the beach where you can buy fish. It has a nice parking lot and play ground. We didn't go there to buy fish, we went there to swim and let the kids play. While the kids were swimming a fisherman came to shore with a manta ray in the bottom of his boat, a blood red fish (it's natural coloring, the eyes were red too!), a giganto fish that was probably 4 feet, and various other fishes. We let the kids stand there while he cut the intestines out of some of them and threw them to the sea gulls. It was pretty sweet. Some of the internal organs he saved.

Goats:
"Back on up!" That's what one of my friends said to the goat at the house when it looked like he was getting confrontational. What made me laugh is that she would even think the goat would understand her! (The Ungers have a goat partly because one of the kids is allergic to cow milk.) We had the pleasure of putting the goat back in the pen for the night when none of us had EVER DONE IT BEFORE. And this goat is a sorta mean goat. If we had video of this, it would belong on America's Funniest Videos, or maybe Mexico's Funniest Videos. I grabbed it by it's horns, tried to pass it off to Angela to grab it's collar, while Janet was ready to shut the door on the pen! There was much shouting, chaos, jumping quickly over the fence made out of used wooden pallets, loosing sandals in the goat pen and the like. It was EXCITING!

ok. Happy Friday for real now.