Hakuna matata!

Digest had a very nice, unexpected (well, sort of unexpected) visit from OLTL's Fiona Hutchison (Gabrielle, OLTL) and her 7-year old son, Hutch, this afternoon. On her way into the studio she came by our digs for a quick tour and to drop off some pictures. As you may know, Hutchison and Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus, GL) traveled to Africa over the summer to help with an organization called The Gabriel Project, which provides heart transplants to children who desperately need them. A whole photo essay will be appearing in our December 2 issue (on sale November 24), but the pictures she was bringing us were of when some of the African recipients and their parents dropped by the OLTL studios! Those will appear online here soon -- so watch this space.
 

Noted Hutchison of their trip to Tanzania, "We brought little gifts, little sweets, bottled water, which we gave out. We didn't mean to cause a stir, but in one village we practically started a riot because water is more valuable than gold there. And it took a lot of men to calm everybody down and get the chief of the tribe of the local village tribe to calm everyone down and distribute the water evenly. We had about 96 bottles of bottled water, which we brought over from America. You can buy bottled water when you get there, but part of the fascination was it was a bottle with totally different writing on it than they'd ever seen, and naturally the water that was inside. That was the naive tourist in us."

Courtesy of www.soapoperadigest.com