Our Last Day in Africa

Today is our last full day here in Africa. Gayle and the boys went back to Tudor Village to try and wrap up the mattress saga while us girls went on some more hospice visits. We went to a village about an hour away from Arusha. The first woman was 60 and HIV positive. She … Read more

Roller Coaster Ride

You must be this tall to ride the ride. Sound familiar. Those of you that have attended an amusement park would know these were the qualifications to get on a roller coaster. Well we must have met the criteria because today we defiantly went for a ride. It was a ride of emotions starting with … Read more

3rd and Final Day of Safari

Amanda reporting for our day three of the safari! As we headed to Ngorongoro Crater it was pretty misty, cloudy, and chilly. On the road leading up to the gates of Ngorongoro Crater sat a bunch of baboons. The ride into the crater was creepily beautiful, surrounded by lots of forrest and fog. Once we … Read more

2nd Day of Safari

Hello! This is Katie again.  We had a fun day today!  We started our day early this morning to meet with the bushmen.  On our way we saw a very dangerous site, which seems to common here.  Some guy was hanging onto the side of a safari vehicle and also riders on the top of … Read more

First Day of Safari

Sorry we did not have internet on safari so will be posting the last 3 days because back where we have internet. Well the team is high with excitement this morning as we are preparing to head out on our first day of safari.  This is where we get to see God's beauty of Africa. … Read more

The Lords Day!

Ring a ding ding ding. Yep thats the church bells ringing you know what time it is, to pull on the maxi skirts and try to look half way decent. After getting a much needed morning of relaxing till nine o'clock Freeman showed up on time and it was on our way to church. We … Read more

Goodbye Tudor Village and Hello Arusha

Why hello there! This is Katie writing to you about today's adventures.  We started our day off by packing up and saying goodbye to everyone at Tudor Village. It's amazing how much baggage we had! After a group picture and sadly not ever seeing Mt Kilimanjaro, we were off to Moshi to tie up some … Read more

Last Day in Moshi

Today we woke up all bright and shiny to compensate for the clouds that seem to be forever present in front of mt. Kilimanjaro. One of these days we will see it! Then we packed our bags that could fit about 2 small children in each and headed to St. Joseph hospital. There we toured … Read more

If you build it they will Come!

Well after an eventful yesterday the rest of team decided they couldn't face today so they overslept.  I was preparing for the day and finally I went and knocked on the teams door and they were still asleep and there was a lot of OMG's going on in the room.  I told them we were … Read more