In the Vancouver airport JC let go of the luggage cart to look at our boarding passes but what he didn't realize was that we were on a slight incline so his cart rolled down heading right for a glass wall, Landon sees this and quickly runs after it but in doing so he let go of his luggage cart which rolled away as well. We all laughed so hard, even the airport workers who saw the whole thing were chuckling.
In the L.A. airport my mom was flagged by the airlines as a person to go through extra security checks. What this meant was she was escorted though security with a female guard, frisked from head to toe and all carry-on scanned by hand. We gave her a standing ovation when she was finally cleared from security!
One of those life’s most embarrassing moments for my children but oh well what are parents for if not to embarrass their children? We arrived at the airport in El Salvador and all the shuttle drivers were lined up with passenger names on cards all waving them at us. I walked by the long line saying ‘not us’, ‘not us’, 'not us' until finally I see our name and I screamed ‘that’s us’ and gave our driver a big hug. I’m not sure who was more embarrassed him or our kids?!?
Worried that the kids are not getting enough French with their studies I decided to download a french book onto our E-Reader. The problem was the kids weren't with me so I picked a book that sounded french based on the title but it turned out to be spanish!
At Carlos's house we were all standing around their backyard bar working on our Blog and giving Landon a hard time for his stinky feet when we suddenly realized it was the block of cheese (Carlos makes his own cheese) and not Landon's feet!
In Costa Rica Tianna, Landon and Luis had certain words or phrases that they would repeat over and over. for example, "who does that?", "sonnnnn", "do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth", "get your hands off my barbie doll ummmhumm", "what the heck do you think you're doing sonnn?" "put your bag in the back, put your bag in the back, no no no no you put your own bag in the back, I'm not a sky captain". Of course they watched the movie Rush Hour a billion times.
Landon, Tianna & Luis all shared one room at Gumbo Limbo in Costa Rica, the fan above them made a very annoying ticking noise so one day they decided to investigate to see why. Landon climbed on top of Luis' shoulders to take a look and what he saw was a dead gecko stuck in the fan and when he tried to remove it, the head snapped off and landed on top of Luis' hair!! Lot's of screaming and laughing at the expense of that poor little gecko. What a way to go!!!
The language barrier gets wider the further into Peru we get. In one day we thought we asked for fried eggs and got scrambled, ordered 2 pineapple and 1 papaya juice and got 3 pineapple, then Landon was asked his name and he answered 'once' which is eleven in Spanish, the waiter laughed and said that’s a cool name. We’ve discovered that no matter how slow, loud, or times the word is repeated it will still not be understood and that applies to both nationalities!
Since we only have one movie(on a data stick) the kids can watch they now have Happy Gilmore memorized. "Happy watch out", "I'm sorry babe I didn't mean that, I just get so scared, scared of being a nobody, why don't you come upstairs hmmm I'll give you the ole kissy wissy smoochie smoochie you know Happy's going to make it all okay" and "you too can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot"...Adam Sandler would be so proud!
One of those life’s most embarrassing moments for my children but oh well what are parents for if not to embarrass their children? We arrived at the airport in El Salvador and all the shuttle drivers were lined up with passenger names on cards all waving them at us. I walked by the long line saying ‘not us’, ‘not us’, 'not us' until finally I see our name and I screamed ‘that’s us’ and gave our driver a big hug. I’m not sure who was more embarrassed him or our kids?!?
Worried that the kids are not getting enough French with their studies I decided to download a french book onto our E-Reader. The problem was the kids weren't with me so I picked a book that sounded french based on the title but it turned out to be spanish!
At Carlos's house we were all standing around their backyard bar working on our Blog and giving Landon a hard time for his stinky feet when we suddenly realized it was the block of cheese (Carlos makes his own cheese) and not Landon's feet!
In Costa Rica Tianna, Landon and Luis had certain words or phrases that they would repeat over and over. for example, "who does that?", "sonnnnn", "do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth", "get your hands off my barbie doll ummmhumm", "what the heck do you think you're doing sonnn?" "put your bag in the back, put your bag in the back, no no no no you put your own bag in the back, I'm not a sky captain". Of course they watched the movie Rush Hour a billion times.
Landon, Tianna & Luis all shared one room at Gumbo Limbo in Costa Rica, the fan above them made a very annoying ticking noise so one day they decided to investigate to see why. Landon climbed on top of Luis' shoulders to take a look and what he saw was a dead gecko stuck in the fan and when he tried to remove it, the head snapped off and landed on top of Luis' hair!! Lot's of screaming and laughing at the expense of that poor little gecko. What a way to go!!!
The tour bus from Lima to Pisco began wonderfully, we met a really nice girl Linda from France who spoke French to the kids (bonus!) and shared her delicious cookies from France with us. On the luxury PeruBus we watched 2 movies, well almost, near the end of the 2nd movie ‘Footloose’ we got off the bus at our stop but after sitting and waiting for our ride from the hotel owner we suddenly realized it wasn’t ‘our stop’!! We then had to re-board another bus, which drove an additional 30 minutes to Pisco our actual destination! Oops!!
That same evening we walked to a family owned restaurant and had some good laughs at ordering our food. The waitress spoke zero English and the entire menu was in Spanish so it took some time but with the help of our Spanish/English dictionary and our limited Spanish we managed to order a pretty decent meal. Luckily they thought it was funny too and at one point we had the entire family at our table trying to help us order. We miss you Luis!!!!
The language barrier gets wider the further into Peru we get. In one day we thought we asked for fried eggs and got scrambled, ordered 2 pineapple and 1 papaya juice and got 3 pineapple, then Landon was asked his name and he answered 'once' which is eleven in Spanish, the waiter laughed and said that’s a cool name. We’ve discovered that no matter how slow, loud, or times the word is repeated it will still not be understood and that applies to both nationalities!
Since we only have one movie(on a data stick) the kids can watch they now have Happy Gilmore memorized. "Happy watch out", "I'm sorry babe I didn't mean that, I just get so scared, scared of being a nobody, why don't you come upstairs hmmm I'll give you the ole kissy wissy smoochie smoochie you know Happy's going to make it all okay" and "you too can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot"...Adam Sandler would be so proud!
On the flight from Brazil to South Africa Landon fell asleep while watching a movie, his hands were cold so he had put the bright orange airline socks on them before falling asleep. When the flight attendant came by with his meal he gave her his garbage but she said “no this is your food” handing it to him. He reached up with his bright orange hands and grabbed one thing off the tray and fell back asleep.
When we checked into the Budget Lodge in Lilongwe, Malawi we were pretty pleased to have this new hotel all to ourselves but were surprised when we crawled into bed and heard a crunchy noise…..they failed to remove the plastic from the new mattress hiding under the sheets!!
Funny now….not so funny when it happened…..it was late, everyone was in bed and our kids were in the bathroom brushing their teeth at Demalza’s when all of a sudden we heard them scream and shout at each other. I ran into the room to discover that Landon’s toothbrush had fallen in the toilet and of course he was blaming Tianna! I got mad for their yelling and even Demalza came in to find out what was going on.
At the airport in Uganda while Maddy was changing the flat tire on his car I heard a Rooster and thought that’s funny a rooster in the parking lot at night but then heard Maddy answer his phone. The rooster call was his ringtone!
Maddy was driving us back from Source of the Nile when all of a sudden a goat walked in front of our car. Thankfully, he had time to stop and yelled out his window "Mr. Goat, please be careful with your life!" I'm not sure why but we all thought this was really funny and laughed so hard!
At the airport in Uganda while Maddy was changing the flat tire on his car I heard a Rooster and thought that’s funny a rooster in the parking lot at night but then heard Maddy answer his phone. The rooster call was his ringtone!
Maddy was driving us back from Source of the Nile when all of a sudden a goat walked in front of our car. Thankfully, he had time to stop and yelled out his window "Mr. Goat, please be careful with your life!" I'm not sure why but we all thought this was really funny and laughed so hard!
While JC was teaching PE at the Primary school in Uganda he had 100+ kids to instruct. The P3 and P4 boys removed their shirts for PE which seemed normal but when it was time for the P2’s all 200 of them, boys & girls, came out in just their underwear.
Late one night, in Uganda, in our pitch black room Tianna woke me to say she had to go to the toilet. Because it was so dark we were bumping into things and each other in our room. When we got outside she was doing the “peepee dance” not wanting to go across the yard to the toilets because she heard the pig. So I said come back and we’ll go behind the building. I could tell she wasn’t going to make it so I picked her up to squat then she pee’d on my foot!!
Landon & Tianna joined their new friends for a 3D movie in Cairo, none of them brought enough money for snacks and barely scraped enough money to buy the 3D glasses, in fact Gaylin and his friend shared one pair of glasses with one lens each!
Crossing the border from Jordan to Israel the process was taking so long that Tianna repeated over and over...."geographically we are in Israel but politically we are not"
Tianna was saving jelly fish on the shores of the Red Sea by throwing them back into the water when she brought one over to me to look at. I said I wonder what that purple marking is and she replied "it's the testicles".........she meant tentacles so we had a really good laugh!!!
On the train in Istanbul I lost my grip on Landon’s guitar and it fell on a man’s toe…oops!
Crossing the border from Jordan to Israel the process was taking so long that Tianna repeated over and over...."geographically we are in Israel but politically we are not"
Tianna was saving jelly fish on the shores of the Red Sea by throwing them back into the water when she brought one over to me to look at. I said I wonder what that purple marking is and she replied "it's the testicles".........she meant tentacles so we had a really good laugh!!!
On the train in Istanbul I lost my grip on Landon’s guitar and it fell on a man’s toe…oops!
When JC was lost on Buyukada Island in Turkey I had trouble communicating to a small store owner that I needed a pen and paper to make a sign for JC, luckily a lady that spoke both English and Turkish was able to pass on my request and presto a sign was made and posted.
We had a funny moment while posing with our families for a photo at Pamukkale when a young, very well fed, boy in his underwear wouldn't move away despite our asking him very nicely he just repeated his response "uh-uh" while shaking his head. Wishing now we would have taken his picture just to remember him.
On Kefalonia Island in Greece we slept on the beach next to the turtle nests when in the morning a dog came running over to us, lifted his leg and pee'd on Landon's sleeping bag while he was still asleep in it!
We had a funny moment while posing with our families for a photo at Pamukkale when a young, very well fed, boy in his underwear wouldn't move away despite our asking him very nicely he just repeated his response "uh-uh" while shaking his head. Wishing now we would have taken his picture just to remember him.
On Kefalonia Island in Greece we slept on the beach next to the turtle nests when in the morning a dog came running over to us, lifted his leg and pee'd on Landon's sleeping bag while he was still asleep in it!
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