Happy Halloween Everyone!

50 Strange Buildings of the World

I came across this site with these unusual homes. Check these out and more, there's a bunch of them on the site.

Mammy’s Cupboard (Natchez, MS, United States)

Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)

Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)

Fall Photoshoot

School Picture Time

Mallory, age 16
11th Grade


Wyatt, age 13
8th Grade
Note: Nice boogyman shirt for picture day, huh? Yeah, he took his school picture when Mallory and I were in South Africa.

South Africa Photos Finally Online!

It took us a while, but the photos are up online at our new Shutterfly website. We've narrowed it down to around 400! Go check them out...

http://strausphotosite.shutterfly.com/

Here's just a few to wet your whistle...


This is us with Gary, Glenda's husband and Jenni Bowlin in Cape Town on the top of Table Mountain. That's the Atlantic ocean behind us. Gorgeous!


This is the largest bungee jumping bridge in the world. We actually saw a guy jump! This gorge lead out to the sea. That is the Indian ocean out on the left.




These two guys are Kyle and Stephan, sons of Glenda and Louise - the ladies who were in charge of the Scrapbooking convention . They helped us at the with the overhead projector and moving our laptop from classroom to classroom. They were a lot of fun!

Here we are with our game driver at Kichaka Lodge. (Thanks for the photo, Margie!) His name was Chikeri. I doubt I spelled that right. What a trip!

One of the Funniest Videos EVER...

Another Video!

Things are getting a little political around this Fox Blog. This is the second video that really struck me as remarkable. It's definitely worth watching and makes me proud to be a Catholic and an American.



Thanks for sending me the link mom!

For more info: www.catholicvote.com