This creepy childhood memory brought to you by Gene Wilder - 9 March 2009

So to be fair, my first Gene Wilder memory is not Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - it's Stir Crazy. Of course that's a part of the family lore and I'll wait for my parents' response before I share that story (and how the mental institution plays into it).

Today, though, I'm referencing the film version of The Little Prince. It turns out that the author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, spent some time flying in South America, and that there is a mountain spear named for him. We were told that there is a drawing of a mountain in The Little Prince based on Mt. Fitzroy, but I don't have a copy of the book and can't confirm that. As I've said before, if you can't find it on Google, is it real?

Today was very strenuous, we hiked up into the mountains to get a view of the glacier. On the way we passed by three lakes, and I took this picture of waves:


We stopped and ate lunch near the glacier, with a great view of Mt. Fitzroy:


And I wouldn't want to disappoint the faithful readers by leaving out the required cloud picture:


After lunch we hiked down to our campsite. All told it was around an 8 hour day and Jen and I were both beat by the time we got to camp. Our guide said we could wash up in the nearby lake, but we elected to skip it (yep, we're nasty - and modest, he ended up skinny dipping).

Dinner was a ridiculous amount of food, continuing the South American tradition. This time there were actually other people at the campsite, and we got to listen to an American trying to teach Germans how to play Texas Hold 'em, which was very entertaining.

Speaking of entertaining, see how long it takes you to find what makes me giggle in this picture: