Poston Prattle

sounds familiar

We are approaching the end of our time here in Africa. In a week and a half we will be on a plane heading back to Atlanta. A few days ago i had a moment that I have been dreading to hear come out of my mouth since I was 5. Every year my family would go on some sort of month long trip to some national park or something. Near the end of the journey my mom would make a declaration that we should write down all of the things that we would do differently, or need to remember for our next trip. My sister and I would role our eyes at one another and proceed to climb into the van to be entertained for the next hour not by the radio, but by my mother and her journal going through the trip of things that were 'good ideas,' things to remember not to do or bring, and things t o remember for next time. Two nights ago as tim and I were again trying to cook with only a stove top, scratching our heads to figure out what else we can cook without an oven, I said, "you know, we should make a list of things that we should remember for next time, things that we forgot this time, like receipts for stoves only and a cork screw"....I got half way through this revelation and said, "oh my gosh, i am sounding like my mother. I promised I would never do that!"

Car's Day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARLEE!!!

i miss you and wish i could be there to celebrate. maybe in aug. we'll have to have a sister's b-day belated party.
love you,
ari

crappy job

We have had many different experiences here in Africa. One of the most incredible has to be tim's experience with digging out an old latrine from an orphanage in Kisumu Kenya. They have since worked diligently on leveling and erecting a new bathhouse.... final results still to come.

Since these early days in Kenya we have since moved on to Uganda for what has been an amazing adventure across Uganda to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (near the neighboring D.R. Congo) where we saw the endangered mnt gorillas. An expensive adventure...but oh so worth it!! If tim's digital could capture them moving and eating beneath the well shaded rainforest canopy there would be a nice picture of them on the computer today. I suppose we'll have to wait until my N70 gets its film developed. I am thankful that tim enjoyed himself, knowing that my own enthusiasm for seeing these creatures has been (I suppose 'was') my childhood dream which I never thought would become reality. At the end of our hour with the gorillas, the guide said, "yes, just come, we go now" I wanted so badly to call back...'not yet'.