Oh Friends

Ok, so can I just say how much I love friends and am lucky to have such great people in my life!

Sarah, fabulous in so many ways, is the only person I know who, not only wants to go to Colombia with me, but also says "hey, let's stop by Cuba on the way home." Oh, and by the way, she will be at the bar at 6am tomorrow morning for the England/Ecuador game.

Then there's Maresa who, when you go to her myspace page and look under "interests," there is only ONE listed: KETEL ONE. Fabulous!

Dan

Hey,
Anybody heard from Dan lately?

Archipelago

Today U.S. President George W. Bush designated the Nortwestern Hawaiian Islands a national monument, creating the largest marine reserve in the world. It is an archipelago 1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide that is home to rare marine mammals, fishes and birds. It's home to more than 7,000 species, at least a fourth of them found nowhere else. Okay, so you know when someone you know (okay the President in this case) does something totally uncharacteristic and surprising and you're like "Hmmm. Weird." Then you start thinking, "hmmm, did he do that do take our minds off of something else?!" Anyway, great environmental victory. Though, you know what this means...

...NO OIL HERE!!!

The Mall...

So I went to my favorite place today- the mall. Okay, for everyone that knows me, that is definitely NOT my favorite place. Anyway, I went to look for a leaning bookshelf thing and, well, left with no leaning bookshelf. I did manage to pick up the new Jane Goodall book and some gourmet dog treats though. The saddest part may be that I don't have a dog.

Bird Flu Dance

Bird Flu Dance Craze Sweeps Ivory Coast
A local deejay is attempting to lighten the mood after the arrival of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in early May. Twenty-one-year-old DJ Lewis has invented a wacky bird flu dance that is sweeping nightclubs in the West African country's major city of Abidjan.
The infectious craze has hundreds of people shaking, flapping their arms, and clucking on the dance floor—an imitation of chickens' death throes when they are culled to stop the virus from spreading.
"I created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans and to chase away fear—the fear of eating chicken," Lewis told the BBC.
"If we kill all our chickens and poultry, our cousins in the village will become poor. So I created the bird flu dance to put joy back into our hearts."
Ivory Coast health experts have been encouraging people to continue eating chicken, saying well-cooked poultry poses little risk of transmitting bird flu.

Colombia or bust!

So my decision is made. I'm going to Colombia this fall!!! No worries friends in Arizona, it's to visit my friend Kathy for a week or so. I'm so excited. So I've been doing some research and discovered:
- Pereira, Colombia is in the heart of the coffee region.

-There is great night life
-They have these horse-zebra things

-There are hot springs nearby
AND
-KATHY IS THERE!