Renaissance Festival

Savannah riding a camel! One of her dad's gifts for her 14th birthday was to take a couple friends to the Renaissance Festival. This was our first time. One of the caveats was that she had to ride a camel :)
Savannah on the jumping trapeze thingie.
The sign reads, "Rack O Lamb = 75 pounds, OR Rack a Man = Priceless." Ha ha!
L gets executed. The girls lounge in these totally awesome chairs!
Savie and me today at Ren Fest!

I'm watching the movie Ice Age with Savie and her friend, I LOVE this movie!! It is so freaking hilarious. Sid the Sloth is so my alter ego!! We just got back from Ren Fest. What a blast. These were my Facebook updates during the day (yes, I did turn on my blackberry while I was there, and no I am not doing that frequently just occasionally now).

Wendee is at the Ded Bob show

Wendee is eating fried yam fries yum

Wendee is thinking 1 turkey leg can feed a small country

Wendee is watching 3 girls ride a camel!

Wendee is thinking the giant swing is the best 4 dollars I ever spent! it rocked!!

Wendee is about to ride a different kind of swing now

Wendee ... one hurling kid, a speeding ticket and a long drive home, but that can't ruin a day w/chocolate covered strawberries, awesome rides, great company

OK so on the way home one of the girls got sick, and then I got a dang speeding ticket! I was almost home too, and trying to go fast because poor E was so sick! The cop had no mercy. He pulls up to me and says, "Did you know you were going nearly triple the speed limit?" I said, "What is the speed limit?" He said "35" and I'd been going about 70 apparently. I don't even believe that, I'm sure I was going 60. As he walked back to his car, Savannah said, "Apparently cops don't have to learn math." Snarky little one, she is!

So we started cracking up while he was back at his car writing my ticket. I said, E you should barf on his shoe when he comes back over here. But alas, she didn't barf on his shoe. He deserved it though!

Last thing I wanted to mention was this cool Monkey Trials blog post by Scott Hatfield about my SBOE testimony. He explained some things that I'd left unsaid.

lies and the lying liars who tell them

Copyright (c) 2006 Wendee Holtcamp
Marianne van Vlaardingen, owner of Pantiacolla EcoTours, and naturalist guide Tina Baker on river rocks on the Rio Madre de Dios, which runs into the Amazon River - overlooking the misty Amazon rainforest. This was taken at the same time as the photo in my header. We stopped on the river rocks to watch for birds.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.
- Jack Johnson

On the way to Austin I started listening to the audio-CD of Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken. As you may know, Franken is all over the news since he's locked in a close Senate Race in Minnesota, which has gone into recount. He used to write for Saturday Night Live. The book, so far, is hilarious! I'm not that far into it yet, but so far, he's gone after Ann Coulter about whom, he says that God says to him, "There's something seriously wrong with her." I'd have to agree with that assessment! She's so full of such vitriol and hatred. Anyway, I digress. Franken also talks about what he calls the fallacy of liberal bias in the media which is interesting given my recent blog posts about that very issue. But if you want a good laugh this book (especially listening to it) will do the trick!

Am taking Savannah and two of her friends to the Renaissance Festival this weekend as part of her birthday celebration. We have never been to Ren Fest so it should be fun. That's about it for now. Just trying to get caught up on things! It seems like I am always trying to get caught up on things. Is that the same for everyone or what?!