Please God, not Africa!

As you well know, last Thursday was American Thanksgiving.  And since we are surrounded by Americans we had the lovely privilege of celebrating with yet another big party.  It was a fantastic day. And I took a lot of photos to share with you. The Drakes (Adam and Faith) hosted us all at their home.  I think with all of us on the TNT, there are 25 people right now.  Adam and Faith decorated their house and it looked lovely.  Here are Jody, Faith and Janice getting all the food on the table.  They wanted me to tell you that the three of them prepared all of this food themselves, but as you can tell by their faces, they knew it was a bold-faced lie. We had turkey with all the fixings.  The team that was just here from Indiana (shout out to College Park -- we love you guys!) brought us TWO REAL turkeys.  They packed them as their "carry-on" in a cooler that was duct-taped shut and the two birds arrived solidly frozen.  The funny pa...

Last Sunday, Nate and I skipped church and took off north of Mango for a little road trip. Here we are on the bike. I took this photo to prove to my friends Alyson and Dr. Laura that YES, WE WORE HELMETS!!   Look how smooth the road is.   There are lots of tiny villages along the road side, here's one of a bunch of mud huts and a woman carrying her stuff on her head.  An every day African sight. We drove north for about an hour, towards the village of Dapong.  On the way back, we met up with some locals. (These pics are for Steve Bloomfield.  Check out these crazy cattle.) Getting closer and they just kept coming... I realize this isn't a great shot, but that's our mirror and look how close the cow's back side is to us! They just kept on coming, seemed like hundreds. We totally blew by these guys. And also this poor guy with his bundle of sticks.  See ya later! And here we are in real li...

Sorry it's taken me an entire week to get another post up about our Fulani adventures!  Yes, we did go back to the refugee camp and yes, the men went out to the village of Mogu to work on their houses.  There are a lot of photos in this blog post because I really want to share this experience. I wish all of you could have been there.  It was pretty awesome.  Turns out the Fulani were preparing to leave to head back to their villages.  We had thought about waiting to buy all the supplies and take them out the following week, but we didn't.  And now we know why.  We were so thankful that we went to market on Thursday and bought 100 cans of powdered milk, 126 panyes, and 1000 lbs of corn.  If we'd waited, we would have totally missed them On Friday morning, the work team from Indiana, and Anna, Emily, the kids, me, and the Drake family packed up our vehicles with powdered milk, candy, toys, panyes, and corn. Here's a photo of three of the men...