Our friends Tim and Debbie Kasten and their three children arrived here on Wednesday to spend about 10 days with us. They are dear friends and it has been wonderful to share this experience with them. As always, much of the time is spent laughing....especially during our evening card games!!! Scott and Tim are two peas in a pod so you can only imagine!!! Their kids have jumped right into life here and are enjoying themselves as they get to know the 52 kids!! Tim is busy building things, putting in ceilings and digging!! Deb is great, helping out wherever is needed.
Today began with "helping out the Mama's"!!! The ladies did laundry with them (during which time I got demoted to 2nd rinse due to a need for "more effort"!!! Hey, I thought I was rinsing, but apparently I was supposed to be scrubbing still). All our kids filled the water bin and jugs which meant when the Ugandan children arrived home from school they didn't have this daily chore to complete!!
Lunch was approaching....which is when our short span of excitement began!! We wanted some pineapple for lunch so Deb, Riaja, Danika, Lydie and I hopped on Boda's and headed to town. On the way we passed some a group of people cheering and a couple of nice cars that appeared to be carrying some important people. It turned out that the lady in the car was an MP campaigning in Mpigi for the upcoming February election. We got what we needed in town and decided to walk home, which turned out to be a good choice (or maybe not), as along the way we came upon some men digging who had found a small snake (we think). They weren't killing it, but they were not sure if it was dangerous or not. After passing on his offer to put the snake in my bag so I could take it home to use as a decoration in my house we got some pictures as proof and headed the rest of the way home. We arrived home to some pretty jealous boys who wanted to see the snake and a father who was happy to oblige them and walk back down the hill to see if it was still there. The snake was nowhere to be found, however, there was a dog that decided it was not happy and began to chase Owen!!! Pretty afraid, O ran and the dog ran after him. Tim lined up to punt the dog and Scott yelled at Owen to stop running (which he did....not sure I would have listened to that advice myself). Meanwhile, in the midst of the excitement Beckham turns to look and gets hit my a Boda (motorcycle), knocking him to the ground!! In the moment there were tears and fear, but by the time they all got home it had become a GREAT story to tell their mom!! Of course we are thankful that no one was hurt!!! I truly don't ever think about safety when we are here as I feel 'watched over' by our Ugandan friends living here. However, today was likely a good reminder to us that we do need to be careful. The son of a lady from the church here was hit at the bottom of this same road two nights ago and is in critical condition in a Kampala hospital!!! Please just continue to pray for safety while we are here.
Once we had polished off the 4th Pineapple in 24 hours we went up and gave the Mama's, Joyce and Rose all pedicures!!! They of course love it and wanted LOTS of pictures taken!! I will try to post them soon. Our day ended with the youngest children doing a rendition of "The Macarena "...it was too funny!!!
Tomorrow there is a medical clinic running here for which people will begin to line up at 5am. The Dr. will arrive at 7:30 am . We will help with this by doing some education with people as they stand in line about how to prevent Malaria. The rest of the day will be spent with the children here; playing, visiting, lots of soccer and maybe some beading!!!
Soon I will start to introduce you to some of our friends here....until then I'm off to try to sleep with the little critters that insist on crawling on me and making me crazy!!!
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