Here's the result from my first dumbling party! Great success!
Here are a few other favorites:
1) Chili bites. I bought these at the grocery when seeing the mixture in a box only cost about 20 cents. How could I pass that up? They basically tasted like falafel.
2) Carrot Cake Pancakes. Sarah's creation. The best part was the cream cheese "topping". Breakfast of champions.
3) Lime Slushies. We discovered about a month ago that our lemon tree in the front yard was actually a lime tree. No wonder the lemons were never getting ripe. We had been blaming Ryan Wells for picking all the fruit before it got ripe, but turns out he just realized they were limes before we did.
4) Digesting. Matt and Tessa's house. Not too shabby.
5 hrs 51 minutes! I felt unstoppable. Literally felt like I could do anything for a little under 6 hrs. Unfortunately, the most beautiful marathon in the world was engulfed in a heavy downpour for about 5 hrs, so I didn't see much other than splashing water and my IPOD dying from water damage, but it was so worth it. Amazing feeling of accomplishment!! Thanks to everyone who has encouraged me!
Victoria Falls was pretty incredible, but to be honest, I think if you've seen one waterfall, you've kind of seen them all. I did not find this wonder of the world to be any more impressive than Niagara Falls, except for the fact that there were monkeys everywhere and no restrictions about how close you can get to the edge of the terrifyingly slippery cliff. In fact, the path along the Zimbabwean side of the falls takes you to "Danger Point," where jumping from rock to slippery rock to get a better view of your possible death is encouraged. As you near Danger Point, you also get completely soaked from all the mist, which was pretty awesome. I had all my belongings double-wrapped in plastic bags in anticipation of this.
If Sarah's travel luck were not already bad enough, our game drive the next morning forgot about us. We waited at our hotel gate at 5:30am in the dark, but no one showed. After many phone calls and poor Sarah thinking she'd flown across the country for only a 3 hr boat cruise and a lot of cat naps in a mosquito net, we finally found a company who was willing to give us a private game drive in the nick of time to catch our flight home. The drive through Chobe was incredible. I'll put some pictures from the game drive and sunset river cruise in the next post, but here's a preview.
My jaw dropped. "SO PAINFUL." Those are not emergency department records forming that barricade between me and my research. Those are thousands of "old hospital charts" with the word "CONFIDENTIAL" across the front. 
Lame and I brought along buddy Dagan, an internal medicine attending working in Botswana for Harvard's new education program. He works in Molepolole, which is about an hour outside of Gabs, and he oversees anywhere from 1 to 6 Beth Israel residents visiting at a time. Dages takes great care of his residents, driving them to and from Molepolole and showing them the Gabs activities and nightlife (which basically means he goes to the yacht club a lot). I don't know what they'd do without him...or wait, I do, because while he was still attending in the US in January to keep his academic title, my phone inherited the blessing of residents calling with flat tires and bad direction sense.
The rest of bachelorette weekend was relaxing and fun. I taught a swim lesson to a Penn ID doc's 3-yr-old son, and despite the tummy ache and sob-fest at the end of the lesson, I don't think I failed completely. All I have to say is thank God for Finding Nemo and noodle horsies.
Chibuku, also known as Shake-Shake, is the traditional brew in Botswana. It's fermented Sorghum, and you know you have a good carton when it's nearly exploding with gas. It has the consistency of milk that's gone bad to the point of having chewy particles, but it tastes more like a mixture of yogurt and vomit. I was told once that it's the perfect snack because it's both food and drink.