It has been brought to my attention that I left a previous post incomplete by not explaining the silicone breasted mattress thrasher. My apologies, it started as a small aside on a game drive and turned into the running joke of the trip. Now might be the best time to describe our cast of characters that will appear in future posts, so without further ado:
Jim/Dad - my father, organizer and director of the trip
Cat - my sister, full of wit and pithy comments
Chris - my brother, the official comedian of the journey
Brittany - Chris' wife
Janice - Dad's friend
Dale - Dad's good friend from South Africa, our local host
Ingrid - Dale's wife
Sean - Our guide while in Madikwe
Callie - Our B&B host in Cape Town
Luli - Callie's wife and the other B&B host
Jen - my wife
John - self explanatory
Ok, now that I have that bit of business out of the way, on to the silicon breasted mattress thrasher... While out on safari in Madikwe, all of the Americans were asking tons of questions, "what's this?" and "what kind of bird is that?" Ingrid is a huge source of knowledge for all things aviary (or anything else for that matter). We kept asking rapid fire questions about birds and animals. Finally, we stop to look at several birds nesting in a tree. Someone asks for the name of a bird, and without hesitation, Ingrid replies "It's a silicon breasted mattress thrasher." The delivery was dead serious and it we all cracked up laughing hysterically. From that point forward, anytime someone asked for the name of a bird that we didn't know, the answer was of course silicon breasted mattress thrasher. That, of course, deteriorated into something larger than we ever thought. Whenever anyone asked what something was, the answer was SBMT. I know it's not quite as great as everyone had hoped for, but it provided some great laughs for us.
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