honey badger

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honey badger don't give a shit.

dr. w actually met a honey badger today at the zoo in belize.

the whole gang @ dinner

DSC_2385, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

me and j-watt @ blanco

DSC_2370, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

more tubing

tubing

Welcome to Blanco

DSC_2947, a photo by Wintermute Lives on Flickr.

Our best trip yet. We added considerably to the brood since last year, doubling the number of kiddos. Here's all 18 of us, sporting commemorative custom-made t-shirts, featuring our favorite bad-ass, the honey badger.

Happy birthday, Lark

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A year ago, you joined us. What an amazing ride it has been already. I love you.

new book

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Just got back from our annual vacation with the enemy of my enemy crew. this year, we convened in blanco, tx, about an hour outside of austin.

I snagged this book at the border's liquidation sale--eleven quotes from star wars, each page with a different scanimation. dr. w asked, "should I read it to you, or to lark?"

an addition

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headed to texas for our annual vacation gathering with my 10 closest friends. of this group, I've known seven of them since freshman year of college, and i'm married to the eighth (two other dudes, whom I also consider very close friends, married into the group).

big news this year is that mcguber is bringing a lady friend (pictured here, from his birthday party a few years ago). he told me that he was considering taking her on his big trip in the fall to new zealand, and I told him that he damn well better take a smaller trip with her first.

while I think we are a pretty welcoming group, I gotta feel for a new person. the collective maturity of the (guys in our) group ranges between 10 and 14 years old. it's one long stream of mom jokes, mixed in with obscure star wars references, and inside jokes that are so inside, sometimes even dr w. doesn't get the reference. and, our new guest will have to sing and hang out in a bathing suit. there's also often a win-or-die-trying board game / made up athletic competition (last year, it was an improvised version of water polo that combined the best part of quidditch, basketball and freeze tag, in lake hamilton).

if she can hang with us for a week, she'll have earned her trip to new zealand.

lots of pics to come when we get back. 12 adults + 6 kiddos.