What’s in my suitcase?

Here’s my first Africa update.  I thought you might be interested in seeing what’s in my suitcase…. see photo below.  It should be an interesting experience traveling through customs.  My personal stuff needs to fit in 1/2 of my carry on bag – the other half is the stuff that needs to be on ice (I’m carrying a lunch bag with reagents). suitcase-contents

Smokies for Sale

Torbin bought 20lbs of smokies. That’s $130 worth. They’re homemade natural beef sausages from the Steves farm – so they are awesome. But 20lbs, man we had a good laugh. He didn’t know how much he was buying. Man, that guy, I guess that’s why I’m marrying him!!

http://www.stevesfarm.com/steveston/beef-for-sale/

Hope the story made you laugh. Now, if you know of anyone who wants to buy a couple pounds of smokies. I’ve got some for sale!

The 5 min Head Start

I got this nice email today from one of my best tri buddies.

What a great swim race. Well done.

Thanks, best tri buddy, it WAS awesome.  I forgot about the 5 min head start that the boys got – so I thought my time was 1:10.  When I saw it was 1:05 (later in the afternoon when I checked the results online) I was really excited.  Were you there for the awards?  I was wondering if I got a ribbon.  I would be proud of that ribbon.  It’s 8 min faster then the last time I swam the Canada Day swim.  Woo hoo!