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We recently joined a friend for dinner at Sauce. The restaurant can be summed up by our waitresses’ answer to how she stays so skinny eating there: she asks the kitchen to make her salads.
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We always sort of expected that when we got a dog, it would be some type of retriever and that, as with most labs and goldens, it would love food. It would have been appropriate.
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Note from Olivia: Matt recently posted this story of visiting gorillas and Rwanda more than ten years after the genocide on a password-protected forum. It struck a chord and I found myself wanting to recommend it to a much wider audience. He kindly agreed to repost it here.

We’d wanted to visit Mountain Gorillas for many years but a combination of backpacking, work, a desire to visit many other countries, genocide and a cost verging on prohibitive put us off until earlier last year when we realized that we had a gap in our Holiday calendar and noticed that our mortgage was no more (Woo Hoo!)

Initial attempts to keep the cost down by booking it independently were thwarted by difficulty in booking the necessary gorilla trekking so we eventually settled on Rainbow tours based in the UK who put together a short trip that would enable us to see the Gorillas twice and spend a night in Kigali before returning home. Read the rest of this entry »