After a cheap flight to Switzerland and a three hour train ride, we've arrived safely in Feuerbach, Germany. It's been so good to see old friends again. Chris was my youth pastor when I was in high school, which makes it a small miracle that he still wants anything to do with me. We'll post some pictures soon.
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Trivia Contest of the Day:
Ange and I decided to have a little trivia contest. Here's the question we were discussing as we sat on a park bench in town today: Do insects have blood? The first person to give us a correct answer will get a postcard from Germany! So break out your 8th grade science books and get crackin'. Post your answers as comments to this thread.
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Oops, to slow y'all. Mr. Matthew Robertson beat you to the punch. I checked his answer on Wikipedia and it is in fact, the truth. And here it is:
"Insects do have blood. Their blood is just different. Insect blood isn't required to carry oxygen because insects obtain oxygen through small holes throughout their bodies called spiracles. Their blood only has to carry nutrients and otherwise functions the same as our blood. Our blood is red because it has hemoglobin to carry oxygen. I suppose if our blood didn't need to carry oxygen it'd be green, too."
This was fun. We'll have to do it again soon.
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Well, after yesterday evening, there are at least a dozen Arkansas mosquitoes that do indeed have blood, the red kind with lots of oxygen in it. It's not theirs, of course. It's mine. What I have is a dozen welts that grew around the nasty little saliva deposit the skeeters left behind.
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I can't believe I missed the science question.
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