Livingstone!

Yes, yes it has been a while since I have last blogged and I am sorry about that! BUT here I am now! All this past week Anna, Cypheen, and Mama H have been in Livingstone attending meetings, doing updates, and buying the food/supplies for the kids. On Monday before all the work began Anna and I were able to go to Victoria Falls and on a Safari!! At Victoria Falls there is bungee jumping :) Yes this another of my life long dreams...and I would be in Africa, at one of the 7 wonders of the world BUNGEE JUMPING!! You ask if I did it...no (said in a very bland monotone voice because that is how I feel now that I haven't done it!) Main reason for not doing it; it was in Zimbabwe...and yes Brian we listened to you and didn't go into Zimbabwe! Plus Anna had some point about if I got hurt there aren't as good of hospitals here and if I died my family would have to pay for my body to be shipped back to the states, etc. Anna what a Debbie Downer! ;) I did enjoy the falls even though it was the dry season, it was still amazing to see! Gorgeous what God can do with a bunch of water!
Also, this story is for Grandpa Slagter, I seem to recall telling you at one point in my life that I was going to have a pet monkey when I got older. You responded by saying that you would never visit me if I did! As a child this made me quite upset...but now that I am older I realize I most likely will never have a pet monkey! But I got really close to one at Victoria Falls...haha, I was walking on the path and was super pumped because there were many monkey's swinging in the trees around me. I whipped out my camera when I saw one walking down the path and wanted to get a picture of how close it was to me! I was going to take it as it walked right by me but through my view finder what do I see the monkey is reaching out and grabbing my bag...of course I did not stay calm in this and screamed scaring off the monkey and getting a blurred picture of some trees! So Grandpa, I will not be getting a monkey, but I was right they do have an attraction to me! :)
As for the safari it was all pretty boring until one exciting moment! Halfway through the safari they stop for a bathroom break and if you want to go down to the river and check it out! So Anna and I get out of our SAFE vehicle and head down to the river. While we were down there I ventured off to check out some monkeys in the trees and see some tracks from some large animal, I am not really up on the tracks of safari animals quite yet. I got some good pictures and then headed over to Anna who was sitting on a large rock near the river. While we were there we heard some slashing of water, it sounded kind of like if a bunch of kids were all let into the lake at the same time; we turned and looked and from our left there were 4, what I later found out were hippo's running at us! I heard the tour guide yelling at us to get back to the vehicle and some other men with tranquilizers running down toward us. Anna and I took off back to the van as fast as we could and got in and shut the doors. The guard tranquilizer men didn't have to shoot but said we were lucky that we weren't sitting closer to the river than the van because they wouldn't have had enough darts for all the hippos, only three! This may be a slight exaggeration...as there were no hippos, no tranquilizers and no running back to our SAFE vehicle! Basically just the sound of many kids running into a lake at the same time...other than that, nope nothing! Although we were able to witness elephants swimming and then coming on land right by our van, this was quite exciting as it is Anna's favorite land mammal! I will defiantly try to put up some pictures of both of my EXCITING adventures!
As for the rest of the week we did updates, updates, and more updates! Actually on Wednesday I was not allowed to leave the Lodge because I had gotten sick and dehydrated from the day before, so Wed was a pretty boring day for me...We were thrilled with the amount of updates we finished! And left this morning at 4:22 to get home in time for a bridal shower Mama was attending! As for this evening it has been pretty relaxing, having supper,doing laundry, and just being "home", back at the office! Oh yes and I wanted to tell Lindsey and Hillary I thought of them when I made puppy chow with Anna for Cypheen and Mama this week! I guess they don't make treats like that! Sadly we had to use Rice Krispies instead of Chex because they don't have much for cereal here...Rice Krispies works just as good just harder to eat as fast (might be good for us), you will have to try it and tell me what you think!

*My Grandpa Slagter- I LOVE YOU! Always thinking of you and Grandma!
*Dusty - he is back in the States! Praise the Lord!
*Anna and My health...someone wasn't praying on Wednesday ;)
*Sister Hillary's back as she injured it in V-ball, and I am not sure if she is living...I haven't heard from her in 2 1/2 weeks ;)
*Little Baby Sir! Size of a Turnip this week :)