- Seen 3 hippos swimming in Lake Tanganika about 2 meters from the shore (note: no more swimming in the lake for us!)
- Gone to the Bujumbura Central Market twice (we're both market people - we saw avocados as big as my 2-yr old's head)
- Bought African cloth (including real Wax Hollandais) and ordered clothes at a local tailor (shorts for Jonathan to take home, matching safari pants and hats for my boys)
- Purchased a trunkful of vegetables from the side of the road for approximately $14 (5 heads of cauliflower, 4 cabbages, 4 lbs zucchini, 4 lbs spinach, 4 lbs carrots, and 1 lb leeks)
- Gone swimming with the boys everyday (sometimes more than once)
- Had movie night on the big screen (I still laugh out loud through most of Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carell)
- Grilled poolside with friends (including real potato french fries made in my husband's serious Dutch deep fryer - I must say, fried fries do beat oven fries. sorry, olive oil fans.)
- Taken the boys to Ice World (uh, I guess it's becoming a regular thing...lookout DQ...)
- Played Cranium with my 5-yr old (he did correctly spell m-u-d but c-a-r-d was just too hard - it should be c-r-d, don't cha know?)
- Accomplished much train-track building and reading (fun for adults and kids alike);
- Gone on a 5-day road trip to Rwanda (siblings only), which completely deserves it's own blog entry (Colobus monkeys in the wild, euchre lakeside with the craziest storks ever, eating/shopping our way through Kigali, aka bliss with only a few totally crappy roads)
Fitting in all the fun has meant finding time for work is tight, but luckily he has a job that he can work on from here so we're getting at least 3 - 5 hours in per day. But not in Rwanda - that was pure fun.
As a small preview, here's us hiking through tea fields with "Mama Colobus," the monkey tracker in search of Colobus monkeys in Rwanda's Nyungwe Forest:
