On our way to Livingstone, we stopped to fill our drinking water tanks from a well. The boys let me take a turn at pumping!
Kone being very gentlemanly and bowing as he pumped water.
That night, we stayed with missionaries near Sioma. We spent a few minutes on the bank of the Zambezi river.
We young people decided to take a little walk and go over the Sioma bridge, which had been built only a few years ago. This view is from the bridge.
I snapped this picture of a bird on the bridge railing.
The view on the other side of the bridge, when we were about in the middle.
We found our way down underneath the bridge and climbed around on the rocks.
On the way back, we saw the sunset. My camera doesn't take the best sunset pictures, but this is what I got!
I don't think anyone took pictures of where we stayed. We girls and the Marais's got the two cute chalets to stay in, and the boys slept in some tents that were already there. The missionaries have a lot of guests come through, so they have extra lodging for people just like us! In the morning, I saw these long-legged birds in the sand.
Then we made the trip to Livingstone! This picture doesn't do the potholes justice! We had to crawl along at about twenty miles an hour to keep from damaging the vehicles. It took us six hours to travel a distance that could have been traveled in two hours if the road had been good.
The first day we set up in Livingstone, I watched two people buying chickens right in front of our table! The chickens are inside a rope cage on the back of a bicycle. The chicken's feet are tied and the person who bought it will carry the chicken by its wings until butchering time.
Some prospective customers.
More curious passers-by.
We set up in front of the entrance to a market. These big wheelbarrows are used to transport merchandise such as...
coal! You can see in the picture the long bags full of charcoal for burning. Just past that is a whole row of wheelbarrows.
A couple nights we made fruit salad. This is a guava that we cut up to put in.
The boys strung a clothesline. Samuel is in the tree, and Nathaniel and Ezra are helping to pull the rope taut.
In Africa, you use what's handy! Ezra ties the end of the rope while Nathaniel keeps it taut.
One night, we had "biscuits and gravy" for supper. Candace made gravy using ground beef, and we used some small rolls instead of biscuits. It actually turned out to be pretty good!
