You’ve read the “stories”, i.e., conspiracy theory, of people going somewhere and waking up without a kidney, etc. Well. The other day, the front page story was two South African teachers, men, missing in Vietnam. Vietnam thinks they may have run afoul of organ traffickers! Apparently the country just busted several organ brokers for trafficking. There goes my desire to see the country!
In today’s paper: a column in the Cape Argus (same source for above) reports that the average German is said to have 10,000 separate items at home. Hmmmm. Laird and I must have multi, multimillions if that is so! I bet if we started counting, we’d run out of numbers! Laird opined that we probably BROUGHT 1,000 on our trip. Even though much of what I brought were presents and have mostly been given away already (still have presents to deliver to Cape Town), I’m pretty sure I won’t be coming home with fewer than I brought! One whole suitcase was filled with presents and I assume the same will be true on the way back.
That’s it for the news. for now.
lairdandjonelle 
The photos are great but I can’t distinguish Lair from the several hirsute critters the photos depict.