Thurs, February 12th - Shopping & English Club

This day we were able to do some 'tourist' shopping. To the left you see Suzanne downing some more of the yummy fresh 'squeezed' mango juice towards the end of the day. Tastes so good!!!

Here are a few pictures of the most unique item I found. It's a great example of African ingenuity. I just might have a little prize for any one that can let me know what it is.

CLOSE UP OF THE TOP

(it's upside down!)

AERIAL SHOT

(about the length of an adult hand)

MUG SHOT (again upside down you'll need to use your imagination)

This day we also had the opportunity to go be a part of the English Club that meets on Thursday afternoons. Unfortunately we did not get pictures of Suzanne reading "The Giving Tree" to 20+ boys in a small, full to capacity room. It was a great dip into one of the 'branches' that Wild Hope is investing in.

Wed, February 11th - Trip To Wild Hope Land

Here's my nephew Leighton drinking Chai and reading Asterix & Obelix on Wild Hope land. You can see the lovely view they'll have when this place gets up & running.

Above is a little clip of the Wild Hope land and the guard choosing Suzanne as Peter's sister not me :-).

Tues, February 10th - Suzanne's 50th

The night ended with Suzanne watching a powerpoint of birthday congrats from those that were far far away ....

Everyone dressed in blue for the birthday supper at the end of the day ... but many other events happened before that ...




Tammy & Sianna prepared a birthday dance to the song 'Shining Star'. Here is Tammy explaining it before they got down to it.







Two games of Cities & Knights -- Suzanne won both!!

..singing on the 'shoilet' (toilet & shower in the same location ... true multitasking!)

Breakfast in bed!!!!

6 Year Anniversay Working at WBT!!!

Today was a day of celebration!
6 years -- to the day -- I've been working at Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Wow -- I can't believe it.
I've learned so much.
(If my laptop didn't crash last night I would put in a picture of me way back then, but instead you get a lovely pic of a trifle Suzanne made back in August last year --enjoy!)

Sunday & Monday, Feb 8th & 9th - Traveling

....I'll be putting up 'day by day' posts from Suzanne & my trip to Tanzania (maybe with some non-trip blogs interspersed so stay awake :-) ... here's the next one ---

Travel days. Left London Sunday night and got into Tanzania (TZ) Monday afternoon. Enroute I discovered that there is an airline for Missionary Kids (MK). See picture.

Made the mistake of telling the customs official that I had 'gifts' so he opened my bag and wanted to know how much the gifts were worth. Fortunately the bags that I had only had cloths and items that others had purchased so I could honestly say that I didn't know the price. He was real interested in the Stanley Thermos and gave us a hard time about bringing in food (corn tortillas) informing us that we need to pre-approve that with the department of agriculture. Suzanne, who had not had her bags opened, came over for moral support and kept asking him where we should go to get this approval, etc. He eventually let us go with no charges or penalties. It was good to see the Russells as we got out of there!

Rested a bit, settled in and started to get acclimated to TZ life.