The world is imploding....

And other reasons you should prepare for the rapture.

Since I've returned from Mozambique, I've started thinking that perhaps I threw off some space-time continuum and now the world is imploding....UNLESS...I managed to somehow reenter into the bizarro backwards universe instead. Either explanation would possibly begin to make sense of all the wierd (and most unlikely) happenings lately. Therefore, I'm listing the top 10 reasons I believe the world is imploding (and to better explain myself so you will stop laughing):

10. I managed to make it in and out of the ER in about 2.5 hrs when all I needed was a lab drawn, despite all the traumas, gunshot victims, and really sick people I was assessing while in the waiting rm.

9. It now takes me less than 5 minutes to park @ Fellowship for the 11am service...and they don't have to announce for everyone to scoot in cause there's not all those people lining the walls.....

8. I actually want to sell my car, put everything in storage and move to a 3rd world country (and currently have a bad attitude abt calling nashville home).

7. The flowers in my backyard that were dead from the drought and global warming summer have not only sprung back to life, but are blooming again even though it did not rain while I was gone (and no, my roomie didn't water them)...nothing else is...just 1 pot of flowers.

6. I'm having significant trouble sleeping during the day.

5. Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize...

4. You too are actually considering the possiblity and ramifications of the universe imploding...and perhaps even starting to list recent odd occurences

3. Apparently, not only can Kentucky recruit the best quarterback in the nation despite the fact that I can't remember the last time they had a winning season; but some are claiming they also have obtained him...

2. South Carolina and Kentucky are in the top 7 (with LSU being the only other SEC team with them)

1. Kentucky knocked off 1st ranked LSU last night!

**with any luck...i just fell into the bizarro world, which would mean, technically i'm the only one affected by this and each of you reading this are the backwards version living in my backwards world...but in the real alteruniverse, everything is rosy and sunny, perfectly tempered and back to normal (and so are you). If, in fact, i'm not in erin's backwards world, well then, my friend, we are in trouble....first global warming...then the implosing....the end is near!

Back from Mozambique

gotta bring a little Auburn love to Africa

So i'm officially back...and still recovering....from Mozambique! I'm afraid I might have left part of my heart there...and I'm really sad. Guess that's a good thing. Anyway, I still plan on going back and after my mandatory prayer time-out of 30 days I will be applying for a 1yr stint over there as a nurse. See my Africa blog for all the details of my trip, updates, and pics! (in the left hand margin-my alter ego)

One cool thing I did get to experience was a little African safari. I was really unexpectedly blessed with the opportunity to go on a one-day safari to South Africa's Kruger National Park with an amazing missionary couple that works for Iris as well. They support themselves by working FT jobs on the side...this is the wife's job: safari guide extradonaire! They opened their home to us for 2 nights as well as picked and dropped us off from Zimpeto which is about a 7hr round-trip ride! So there was us 5 girls and then Lynne, our guide in a big open top safari jeep. We got to see everything but a cheetah (although I'm convinced that we just couldn't see her cause she was running circles around us so fast).

The list includes but is not limited to: tons of elephants and giraffes...a gaggle of giraffe right next to us on the rd; a herd of about 25-30 elephants crossing right in front of our jeep; a group of zebras crossing in front of us as well as right on the side of the rd next to us; lots of elephants really close (i wanted to jump out and pet the cute babies); hyenas; warthogs (think puma from the lion king); ververt monkeys; baboons; lots of really cool and wierd looking birds; water buffaloo; rhinos; tons of hippos and crocodiles; all 499,999 impala; kudu's; 2 leopards; a lionness den; a lone lionness (we supposed was being stood up by her lover under the kissing tree); 3 male lions eating a fresh kill; 4 lionesses stalking impala and kudu for about 20 min (better than animal planet!); oh and lots of idiots like us having way too much fun! Too bad it wasn't a petting safari.....so here's some pictures just for fun!

Me and giraffes

The view we had for breakfast

Me, Emily, and Hanna enjoying our breakfast (ok, waiting on it to come)

Elephant crossing

Let's play where's the lions?....promise there are 2 in this pic!

Hippos @ the local watering hole

Zebras!

And finally: while myself, Hanna, Leigh, and Rachel were checking out the cool elephants, Emily had found the cheetah and neglected to tell anyone! ok, we were really just having a little fun.