Madagascar 2: flying quotes

As they’re boarding:

[Mort wants to go on the plane]

Julien: Stop him! He's carrying scissors and hand cream!

[several lemurs pile on Mort, in response]

Before take off, during normal safety demonstration & instructions:

Private [as he demonstrates]: In case we go down, place the life-jacket over your head, pull the string, and kiss your kids good-bye...

In case of a loss of oxygen, please place your masks over your faces to hide your terrified expressions from the other passengers. 

Lemur King (in first class) says to another passenger, who intrudes from the back looking for drinks:

Julien: This is first class. Nothing personal. It's just that we're better than you.

Right after passenger goes back behind the dividing curtain:

Julien: Whatever happened to the separation of the classes? 
Maurice: I'm sure this whole democracy thing is just a fad. 

Later, in the cockpit of the plane:

[Bulb on the fuel gauge is flashing] 

Kowalski: Skipper, look. 
Skipper: Analysis 
Kowalski: It looks like a small incandescent bulb, designed to indicate something out of the ordinary, like a malfunction. 
Skipper: I find it pretty and somewhat hypnotic. 
Kowalski: That too, sir. 
Skipper: Right. Rico, manual! 
[Catches the manual and smashes the bulb with it] 
Skipper: Problemo solved. 
Kowalski: Sir, we may be out of fuel. 
Skipper: What makes you think that? 
Kowalski: We've lost engine one, and engine two is no longer on fire. 
Skipper: Buckle up, boys. Don't look, doll, this might get hairy. 
[on the microphone] 
Skipper: This is your captain speaking. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we will be landing immediately. 
[everyone claps] 
Skipper: The bad news is, we're crash landing. 
[Plane goes on a dive] 
Skipper: When it comes to air travel, we know that you have no choice whatsoever, but thanks again for choosing Air Penguin. 

After crash landing, in the cockpit of the plane:

Kowalski: Only two passengers unaccounted for, Skipper. 
Skipper: That's a number I can live with! Good landing, boys! Who says a penguin can't fly?

Guest...Family

This week has been rather busy for Fred & Debby. Besides Sunday, they only had Monday and originally hoped to have today in town. Monday Deb, her mom, Rosalee & I went to see Julie & Julia. It wasn't as good as I thought it'd be -- it was slow, not bad, just long -- but Debby loved it; guess it helps if you used to watch Julia Child on TV doing her cooking show, because part of the reason Deb loved it so much was how well Meryl Streep portrayed Julia. Then Tuesday morning Fred, Deb, & Weesy left to head to NYC; they didn't hurry but took a hotel room half-way there and then went to the airport about 7pm yesterday. Originally they hoped to drive straight back last night, but I guess it just turned out to be too long of day and they took another hotel room half-way back. Sometime this afternoon -- like in the next hour -- they should be pulling into the driveway.

Then tomorrow they start it all over again, but this time heading out our friend's the Ingole's in Ohio. There they will stay the night and help take people to the Pittsburg airport where Marie-Louise and several friends/family of the Ingole's are leaving for another two-week missions trip to Honduras -- it'll be the first one Weesy go on without her family, so she's excited about that! Then Fred & Deb will come back home and we'll start the next week all together.

So, that may not be very exciting news -- we always seem to have a busy life -- but it isn't for their schedule I initially wished to share. It's for whom they are picking up and whom I'm excited to meet in about an hour! Yes, I'm sure at least some of y'all heard about us trying to help a girl from Africa -- the child of an African couple Fred & Debby call friends and have connections with while in Africa -- come as a student here. Well the US embassy finally OKd her, she got her visa, and is now on her way to Olean with Fred, Deb, & Weesy. She'll live with us and go to school with Weesy at the small local Christian school. Dorcas is her name. She speaks almost no English but is familiar with French -- thankfully Fred, Deb, & Weesy know a good deal of French, I'm gonna be the one who has a hard time communicating with her! She's tall, broad shoulder -- or so I've heard -- built like my friend Emily.

Anyway, I'm just looking forward to meeting her in the next hour! A little nervous, maybe even anxious about how this is all going to work out in the next couple years, but still excited! I'll try and let y'all know how it goes...meanwhile if you find any clothing, especially winter things, in about a size 1x, size 16 pants, or a shoe size 11, and you feel led to give it away/pass it along, feel free to send them this way!