conversation with grace:

g: "yeah i had to get my immunizations to go to africa, 6 all at once. but you know, that pain paled in comparison to the cardio workout i did. i seriously could not move the next day."
a: "whoa that's crazy...what kind of stuff did you have to do?"
g: "there were like twenty different stations that you had to do for twenty minutes each--it was insane. i hurt in places i've never hurt before."
a: "oh my gosh! i can't believe they made you do all that stuff! i've never heard of anything like that for a physical to go to a foreign country!"
g: "...noooo! that was the workout i did with my mom!"

seriously, grace, a segway would have been nice. here i was thinking the whole time, "man, how the heck do fat people get cleared to go to africa?"