Goodbye Boys!

Today was a sad day because Dennis and Isaac left! I can't believe how quickly their two week stay went by. I think we accomplished pretty much everything that they wanted to get done. We had to stop by one orphanage to check in on the medicine in the morning and then in the early afternoon we made a Monopoly game the features our favorite places in Uganda. I need to take a picture to show your our great ideas! Then we stopped back by Agape to see how the toilet is coming along. Apparently Joshua was going to call us, but one of the boys stole is phone while he was at prayer time in the morning. Even with all of the problems that Joshua faces with all of the boys, he is encouraging and positive about the boys. The project is going well, even though it is taking longer than we expected. I was hoping it would be finished before the guys left so we didn't have to go back for a lot more visits, but it is looking like we will want to check in a couple more times before we leave. It's really just overwhelming to go there because there is so much that needs to get done there! We want to help, but there is so much to do, you just don't know where to start!

It was really sad to see the guys go! It's fun to have the four of us running around the city having all kinds of mini-adventures! It's only been a couple of days but we already miss them!

Saturday night and Sunday were pretty low key nights. We went to a birthday party for one of Angella and Patt's friends, Flavia. She is such a sweet girl and I am so happy we met her! We were more than fashionably late for the party. Apparently we thought it started at 6, but in reality it was a lunch party starting at 2. We had left the house at 5:30, then spent over two hours in traffic and getting lost a couple of times, we arrived at 7:30, just in time to put away the tables and food! It worked out really well because we got to go up to the apartment and have a quiet dinner getting to know Flavia! I guess being late isn't so bad! On Sunday after church, Angella and I went to have dinner at Patt's house with Flavia. He cooked for us and it was delicious! I even ate liver without complaining! Patt cut it very small and seasoned it well so it was much better than the last time I tried when it was huge chunks that looked like a raw fresh liver! I just couldn't do that! We watched a couple of silly movies and then came home to hang out. While watching the olympics, Hope showed me how to make Sambusas (or Samosas if we say the word everybody knows). They are a delicous deep fried food that you can eat for breakfast lunch and dinner! I have realized that most foods here are deep fried and carb loaded. It is an easy way to prepare food so it is hard to avoid, but still tastes pretty great! I have to learn how to make the filling and dough, but for now, I am proud of my Sambusa folding skills!!

Today (Monday) Angella and I are taking a trip out East to Sipi Falls to relax and maybe do some hiking. It's going to be our own little mini vacation before my mom gets here and we start another adventure and more work! We will be gone for two or three days and I'm hoping its a ton of fun! Oh yeah, the Ebola scare in Uganda is mainly in an area in the West and is transmitted through bodily fluids.....you can't catch it like you catch the flu. So in addition to being not involved in providing health care on this trip, I will be traveling the opposite direction of the outbreak!