Have you met our travelin' friends?

On our various travels we’ve made a lot of friends. Okay, we haven’t really made friends so much as we've met some kooky characters. Here are the ones we don’t have pictures of:

--Booger Girl: The girl by the pool in St. Thomas who was interviewing for a sales job at the hotel. As she told us about it, she had a booger hanging out of her nose. I said, “I hope that when she goes into that interview she wipes her nose.” Then Frank said the funniest thing I've ever heard:, “I hope so too. If not, the interviewer is going to say, ‘you know, we’re not selling boogers here…’” Cracks me up every time.

--Nathania: We were in Cabo at this cool B&B, The Bungalows. We accidentally got this two-bedroom bungalow so when the owner overbooked, he asked if this girl, Nathania, could stay in our extra room. Frank agreed without asking me. (read: Nathania was hot.) Apparently she was traveling alone because her friend had met a Mexican guy and left her to go meet his family. She was quite the trooper, though, and said she wouldn’t let it spoil her trip. She meant it. We ran into her at a bar later and she was dancing, surrounded by guys. We said, “Hey, Nathania!!” She was all, “Wassup? Hey, everybody these are my roommates!!” She didn’t come home that night.

Here are the ones we do have pictures of:

Weatherman and Wife: We met them in St. Thomas. I just remember that the guy is a weatherman and they like to dance. Maybe somebody will recognize him.

Crazy Lady Hitting on Frank: Same night—she asked Frank to fix her shirt. He was very against it, as you can see.

Barbados Bob: I just remember that he was traveling alone from New York and we kept running into him everywhere. Too bad this wasn’t Cabo. We could have fixed him up with Nathania.

Cruisers: These were our dinner companions on our Cruise:

--“The Bank” People: Lady and her son across from us. They’re from Oklahoma and the woman kept talking about “the bank.” She’d say, “We came with some people from the bank” or “We’re supposed to be sitting with the bank…” Turns out the kid had worked at the local bank and the ladies there asked if he and his mom wanted to come with them on the cruise. But it was sort of last minute so they didn’t get the same table as them. We ran into them everywhere and we never saw “the bank” people.

--Khan and Khan Jr: The couple next to them. He’s way too old for her and he reminded us of Khan on King of the Hill. We called her “Khan Jr.” because that’s what Khan’s daughter’s name is on the show.

--Hurst Couple: Okay, this couple had just gotten married but the way they met was weird. His name was something common like Jeff Smith. She sent an email to a guy she knows named Jeff Smith but accidentally sent it to the wrong Jeff Smith. They started talking anyway and somehow that lead them to the altar and then to our cruise. We call them the Hurst couple because that’s where they’re from. They said, “Since you’re close, we should get together!” I just send another Frank and Elsa. I figure these two won’t know the difference.

Cancun Compadres: I don’t know who these people are. They just jumped into our picture.

China Freedom Fighter: This is my favorite picture ever. Frank went to China, climbed this mountain and at the top there was this little village where people had rarely seen Americans. This Chinese man asked Frank and his friends to talk to his son so he could practice his English. When they took this picture the little boy just spontaneously made the peace sign.

And why is Frank wearing a random bandana? That’s a whole other story.

I hope you enjoyed meeting our friends from around the world. I also hope you have the privilege of meeting interesting people on your travels. But always remember to check your nose before you talk to strangers. Because, come on, "we're not selling boogers here."