The Power Of One

More than half the world's population lives on $1 a day. Every little bit helps. Please give if you can, even if it's just a dollar. Visit the "First Giving" Link to the right to donate for Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up. When we first posted September seemed so far away, but it's creeping ever closer.

Feist on Sesame Street

I think I like Feist's music even more now... Enjoy!

Snapfish

In an effort to share all of our pictures, we created a snapfish account to create albums. That way, each of the travelers could purchase prints of anyone else's work. I don't know if Blogger will allow me to link to the snapfish library. Let me know if this works!

Camping at Cunningham Falls

We went camping this weekend at Cunningham Falls State Park in Maryland. The waterfalls were really neat, but much to my sister's chagrin small children were slipping and sliding all over the rocks that make up the falling water's landing points. When we got back to the bottom we noted the signs banning climbing of said rocks and playing in of said waterfall. Much to my dismay, no one else was as excited as I by the prospect of going to the "Birds of Prey" show at the amphitheater in the evening. We enjoyed s'mores instead - which is definitely a good alternative. Alas a good time was had by all and we enjoyed the lake/beach on both Saturday and Sunday. We literally just beat the rain. As we were packing up our gear to go home, the skies darkened ominously. The rain chased Jeff and I home all the way as we witnessed the doppler radar on the news upon our arrival. This was like practice camping since we're going camping for a longer stretch of time come August in Colorado. Look out!

CUSKCGU

After going to the Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up page I found that they've taken the liberty to abbreviate their title. Jeff got an email indicating that we weren't yet registered. Evidently we were so gung ho to get started that we skipped all that silly registering and just got fund-raising pages instead. So, while registering we found the somewhat sobering news that we're expected as a team entry (with just two of us so far - anyone's welcome to join our team (hint, hint)) to raise $5,000. So, I changed my fundraising goal on my First Giving page from a skimpy $100 to $2500 (1/2 of $5000) and my neat-o percentage went from 70% (thank you to all those who gave already) to 3%. So sad. So, if you can, please give by clicking on my First Giving widget on the right. Thank you - and check out the video in the June postings somewhere. I do love the video.

Can You Hear Me Now?

While I was in Tanzania, I was amazed by the saturation of the market when it came to cell phone usage. At my mountaintop chit chat, Godwin explained to us that the Maasai don't have tv's or radios, but they do have cell phones. He also explained that people in rural areas have to travel to town to charge their cell phones. Here is a compilation of pictures of people in Africa on cell phones (even while driving - gasp!). My favorite was the village elder with his on a beaded lanyard around his neck.

Places to See Before You Die

One of the "Places to See Before You Die" on my iGoogle widget today is: Amsterdam...check!