In a story that strikes me as just plain bizarre, In Touch Weekly is reporting that Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin are hookin' up this weekend in Alaska for a camping trip, along with Kate's 8 and a bevy of TV cameras from Kate's new reality series, Kate Plus Eight. And the two apparently have quite the itinerary cooked up for the weekend:Kate & The 8 have reportedly already arrived in Alaska, and first up was some shopping at a store called Alaskan Ivory Exchange. And when they say ivory, they mean it. According to its website, the store specializes and carvings and jewelry from walrus tusks and whale bones. BTW, how does one go about lawfully collecting such materials in the first place? I guess if anyone would know, it would be Palin. I just hope none of the animal parts sold in the store came from one her hunts.
Next up is a trip to the Alaska Zoo, apparently so that Kate & the 8 can take a look at what walruses and whales look like before they end up at the ol' Ivory Exchange. Then it's on to meet up with Palin for the camping trip. A source told In Touch that one component of the camping trip will involve Palin teaching Kate "how to avoid bears" (you just can't make this stuff up). Avoid them? I thought the goal would be to find them so that Palin could fill their hides with buckshot? Strikes me that she might not be the best source for avoiding them.
After the camping trip comes some quality time for Kate & The 8 with the Palin extended clan. Palin's old man and her brother (retired and current school teachers) have a "hands-on natural history lesson" in store for The 8. The "hands-on" part of that equation is what's a bit concerning to me. What, are they going to go out and pet some wolves or something? I can just hear the old man now: "These are where the dogs came from, children."
Last but not least, it's reported that Kate will help the Palin family plan Bristol Palin's wedding to Levi Johnston. Actually, I do think this part of the story is intended as a joke, since it does not appear in the In Touch online story, but rather only in the Kansas City Star's online treatment of the In Touch story (both are linked below). However, in the truly strange story that I've detailed above, not to mention the crazy worlds in which Palin and Gosselin inhabit, is the notion of Kate as the Palin wedding planner really that unbelievable or beyond the pale?
http://www.intouchweekly.com/2010/07/in_touch_exclusivekate_gosseli_1.php
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/22/2100797/sarah-palin-meets-kate-plus-her.html
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