Village friends...

Here are some pictures of some of my friends from the village...(these pictures are courtesy of Andrea...thanks for letting us have the pix you took while you were here!!)

This little girl is my baby. She and I have become quite attached. Her mother even says that she is my daughter! She is always wanting me to hold her or put her on my back and carry her the way the women here do.






These are some girls from the village having fun. I think they are actually looking up at us in the tree the day we climbed it!

This is the water man...he gets water for many of the families in our villages. We can always find him heading down the path to the well with two buckets over his shoulders.
This is a grandma who lives in town. She sells milk on the street during the week and then at market on Sunday.




Above is a picture of some cows being watered at the well. They get water from the well and put it into these smaller round containers which serve as a water trough for the animals.


And here is me holding my girl!!! Can you see the family resemblance?! :)

Flat tires...

We had been doing really well with our truck not having flat tires until just recently. We've now had two within just a few weeks of each other! Above are some pictures of our local tire repair shop in Guidan Roumdji. Not exactly a Wal-Mart Auto center but it works well for us!

Fortunately, we are true women and have been able to have men change the tire for us both times...lol. Of course here, sometimes we have a little more "help" than we really want!


And here is a picture of Melissa and I doing one of our favorite things....drinking a coke!!!

You're never too old to climb a tree...

What an adventure we had in our village one day! We had been talking about how many of the trees in the village would make great climbing trees. We kept talking about it and talking about it but never did anything.

Until one special day - my birthday - we decided that we should stop just talking about climbing the tree and actually do it! So we did!! We picked the tree closest to the well in the village and made our way up. And believe me, it was no easy task wearing a wrap skirt!!


The kids all thought it was hilarious to see us climbing up the tree...as did the many adults that came to the well while we were up there. One man told us we looked like monkeys...big monkeys, but monkeys nonetheless!!!

I am convinced that there are some things a person will never outgrow and climbing trees is one of them!!