Emma (M)’s Comments (group member since Dec 02, 2014)

Emma (M)’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Have you ladies signed up for the Summertime Mountaineering Challenge on AMMP? It looks like it's one you can earn a badge for but your backpack needs to be submitted today if you want to play.

Sigh... So far away!

The new team challenge for NBRC should be starting soon shouldn't it?

Right, gotcha :)

Where do you find out your cabins?

I so have V :)

That is totally awesome Stacie. All the good book boxes don't get shipped to Oz, its such a shame.

I have to tell you girls what happened today. We had lunch at a restaurant at Cape Point where the two oceans meet. There is a baboon colony that lives there and there are signs everywhere not to feed them. However, being the wily creatures they are, they know that the restaurant serves food and the balcony is full of us silly humans hoeing into said food. Anywho, next thing you know there is marauding baboons running through the restaurant balcony stealing tasty titbits off people's tables. One jumped onto our table and started eating the rice right off our seafood platter. The restaurant staff and my partner chased him off (the restaurant staff seem to spend and inordinate amount of time chasing baboons off of the balcony) but he runs up to the roof and peers over the edge and while we are giving each other the hairy eyeball, rice is raining down on me as he is trying to stuff it into his mouth as fast as possible. It was hilarious! Even more funny was when another baboon jumped onto the table next to us and stole the container that holds all the sugar sachets, he then jumps onto the railing, runs to sit next to me and starts shoving the sugar sachets into his mouth. Sugar was going everywhere! It absolutely made our day. I love baboons and even though they can be aggressive little f****kers, I can't help but love their antics. I managed to catch the sugar stealing action on my camera - I wish I could upload photos to show you guys, there is one where he is running along the railing, sugar container clutched tightly against his chest for dear life.

Yeah, it was pretty cool. They only have two elephants, but they were so close it was great. The lions were rescue lions which had been raised to be hunted. It's called canned hunting where the lions are raised purely so they can be released into a confined area and guarantee a hunter he will be able to get his kill. It's awful and I can't believe it's allowed to go on. Anyway the reserve rescued them but because they had been raised by humans they were not able to look after themselves in the wild, so the reserve has to feed them. Anyway, there was one male and two females and they were gorgeous.

It's great what the reserve does, they have three rhinos on the reserve and every night they have a poaching unit monitor them to make sure nothing happens to them. They also inject their horns with something that means they can't be used in natural medicines, which is apparently the main use for the rhino horns, the stuff they inject also has a substance in it which would be picked up in customs screening, if they were to be poached and an attempt was made to export them.

I found it all very interesting and it is great to see all the work put into helping their native animals.

It seems they are running it monthly ST

Me too :D

I signed us up for the 181+ a year since that is probably the best reflective of what we read per year? Let me know if you want me to change it :)

What book number per year - 181+ per year? That is 5 day rounds or shall we do 121-181 which is 10 day rounds

Excellent, I'll sign us up now :)

Oh I had another look at a sample game and the team finds the route marker and are given a task, then once the task is complete the team members read the country location and mode of transport to move on.

V Audio Nerd wrote: "Ahh ST I'm so glad you are having a good time ♡♡

So looking at the Amazing Race thing and reading the rules again (wow there are a lot!) it looks like a giant scavenger hunt with stood on the way?..."

Yeah, each round they give you some tasks, so, for instance, one of the team members may have to read a book set in a particular country and the other team member reads the mode of transport. The team is racing against other teams to fulfil all the requirements of the different tasks and not be the last to check in. Last team to check in is eliminated. That's what I understand of it anyway. I think there is a scavenger hunt you can do to earn a fast forward as well.

Sounds like you are having a great time ST and working hard with all that biking!

How long are you there for?

No, but it seems like a lot of fun. I wanted to sign up for the last one but decided to wait until June so I wasn't on holiday at the time.

I'm really keen to do the Amazing Race V, if you want to partner up for it? I've been waiting for the June one because I will be back in Oz for it :)

Wow, that sounds like a book I would like, I better head over to Amazon!

Thanks for the link Renee!

Oh Guy Sebastion. He actually won the very first Australian Idol about 10 years or more ago. He's very good and very popular in Oz :)

So... How did we go? Who was the singer?