Birthday Photos

Sarah did you ever tell us which glasses you chose? You need to post a pic of the winner.

Here are some pics from my birthday

My birthday cake was made by a woman named Santa. As in Santa Clause. This is funny to no one here because there is no Santa Clause. But I crack up every time someone says Santa is coming. SANTA IS COMING!!!!! FYI Ugandan birthday cake is NOT the same as American cake. 

For my birthday God made it rain. The best gift of all. I love the rain.

Rain pouring off of our roof

Family hiding from the rain. I love that when it rains no one can go anywhere. Inside the house it is too loud to talk and outside it is too muddy to move around. Love it.

Chickens also hide from the rain. Wimps.

Then it began to hail and we picked up the chunks of ice out of the mud and ate them. It sounds gross but it was delicious.

This is the view from my bed. I love my life.

Double rainbow.  DOUBLE RAINBOW!

- Kels

A slap in the face

I arrived! After precisely 200 gazillion hours of traveling. 4 countries in 24 hours. Too many airplane meals. A little worse for wear. I am in Uganda. Minus half of my stuff. I had a 15 minute connection in Cairo where I had to run to catch my flight and was allowed to skip all security lines (safe?) so I assume that somehow a bag got lost in Egypt. No big deal, its just the bag that has my contacts, glasses, malaria pills, shoes, and all other medications. Nothing important there.

The other day I was reading a blog post about a woman moving from Trinidad to Uganda. In her first Uganda post she wrote, "Africa greets you like a slap in the face". Its so true. More than once on the hour long drive from the airport to the main city I have wondered why do I love it here? But then the further away I get from the main city the more beautiful everything becomes. I mean I love the capital for its nice mall and semi well stocked grocery store. But I really love leaving the capital. Buildings are less and green things are more. Pavement turns into dirt. And the sun rising over the rainforest = heaven.

-kels