We pick on Dave.

peeps.

i have to share this anecdote because i forgot to include it in earlier postings.

so dave had just arrived in the Philippines (kinda) and we had gone out to eat. We were in the town where the caves were, fyi, so they're admittedly, more likely to eat funky stuff. Anyway, so we're about to eat and we're looking at the menu and this is sort of what it said. for example.

Caldereta
Beef stew with large pieces of meat, vegetables and pota
toes mixed in tomato sauce.

so Dave only sees "toes" on the second line and says "oh wow, they serve toes here" and i'm like what? filipinos don't eat toes.

"let me see that,"

and he says, "what are pota toes?"

and i started dying of laughter, "ummm potas you know they're related to tomas, we also eat toma toes."

get it potatoes?

anyway, it was good.

and this video was a failed attempt at playing a joke on dave. see, theres a lot of little critters and bugs around the mountains and martine was twirling her hair and she was going to sneak up next to him and tickle his ear with her hair because it feels incredibly similar to what you would imagine it felt to have a grasshopper or something equally large, nestle up against your ear. but as you will see, umm, we weren't successful.