Monday, March 31, 2008 – 10:49 pm
Dave and I did not have any plans for Easter this year, which turned out to be great because we got to go to the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) race. BYOBW used to take place on Lombard St, but apparently the residents had a problem with all the extra people hanging around their homes, so they threatened to sue the organizers (come on, if you live on Lombard St, you’re asking for it!). I managed to fight my way to the front, even after a very short woman made a rather catty comment about how hard it is to be short in crowds (I squatted down to take the video, so I don’t think she was talking about me). I also managed to not get hit by any of the racers, not a small feat, as you will see. This has to be the funniest event I have ever seen! The race was on the real crookedest street in San Francisco, Vermont St. Crookeder than Lombard, but not nearly as picturesque. The funniest thing I saw that day was racers tearing around the corner and their child-sized plastic big wheel completely collapsing beneath them, leaving the racer sitting on the pavement, looking forlorn. Anyway, enjoy!
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Monday, March 31, 2008 – 10:41 pm
Come on guys, this is a blog! It only works if people make comments, otherwise I feel like I’m talking to myself. Here is the second video of the Masai children singing. Not as good as the first, but still pretty darn cute!
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 – 10:59 pm
Part of our safari was a visit to a Masai village. The Masai are obviously used to having tourists and greeted us with songs and a tour. At the end, they showed us the primary school nearby and the children sang for us too. Here are some pictures and videos of the Masai village.
The Chief of the village was our guide, he is on the right. The chief told us several times that he has three wives and many children!
Masai women - they sang for us when we arrived. They also make and sell the souvenirs at the village.
This little boy followed me around the village and at one point either he or his friends grabbed a pen right out of my purse! One of the tour guides saw them and started yelling at them, and I didn’t know why. Then the guide kind of sheepishly hands me this pen and says, “they took it out of your purse.” He looked so upset, but all I could do was laugh!
This baby goat was only a day old - so cute!!!! He was crying for his mother the whole time we were there.
Here are the videos of the children singing:
Ok, just one video for now, can’t get the other one to upload. Enjoy!
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Monday, March 24, 2008 – 9:34 pm
Ok, I’ve been back for over a week now, but I’ve been trying to upload all of my photos to meet all your demands for pictures! I’m going to post some here that have good stories to go with them, starting with the amazing safari cheetah pictures and videos……..Now, most people would be satisfied with just seeing African animals in person, but not our group. Oh no, we demanded more from our guides and boy, did they deliver!
It all started with this - an excited burst of Swahili over the radio and our guide zooming to this spot, then pointing and saying, “there’s a cheetah - it’s hunting.” And all of us grab for the binoculars for the chance to see the speck in the distance as more and more safari jeeps gather in our area. Eventually the cheetah runs away and disappears, much to our disappointment - but wait!
Over there, is that the cheetah coming towards us? And is that a gazelle in its mouth?????!!!!!!! At this point, general mayhem breaks out in the jeep with people dodging around each other, trying to get a picture. But as if that wasn’t exciting enough……….
The cheetah stops, drops the gazelle in front of it (right in front of our jeep), and starts to bark………..and then…………
The baby cheetahs arrive!!!!!
So cute, even with a blood mustache!
You can see more of my pictures at www.flickr.com/photos/meggieb20. Enjoy!!!!
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Monday, March 24, 2008 – 5:45 pm
Just to prove Meg is back here’s a couple shots that I’ve taken over the past week. The one on the left was taken in my new “studio” and the one on the right was during our trip out to Golden Gate Park this weekend.
Meg is working on getting her 1,500 photos uploaded and I’m working on doing some video editing so we’ll have plenty more for the blog in the near future.
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