Sunday, March 7, 2010

3/6/10 7:34PM
Uganda; day 67

So today we went back to town to find out why our wireless modem wasn’t working, and found out that we were misinformed when we got it. We had been told that you buy a certain amount of “airtime” and you use it until it’s gone, or two months time has passed. Well, we’ve had it for one month, and we were being careful not to use it to much so that it would last two months, unfortunately now they’ve changed that so it expires after one month. So we’re back to no internet at the home. We will see how we do with waiting to go to town to get news from the states. The connection was so slow we couldn’t do anything but check our email anyway.

After that we went to the Source Cafe for my dose of caffeine in a yummy mocha latte, and to check my email for any sign of hope that money would be coming soon for the needs of the home. Unfortunately there was no such hope. Maybe there will be tomorrow when we go to town for church.
We tried a new spot for lunch today, it’s called Ozzie’s. It was pretty good, the prices are cheap and the food, including hamburger buns is all homemade. They had some homemade chocolate cake that looked delicious but I managed to restrain myself . . . this time.

As soon as we got back to the home we decided to go for another long walk. We were just going to do this on days we didn’t go to town, so we could get out of the house and stretch our legs, but we’ve enjoyed them so much we’ve been going everyday. Today we decided to go all the way to the top of the hill we walked up a few days ago. It took about an hour, and we got to see a bunch of monkeys hanging out in trees along the road. There were even some baby monkeys hanging onto their moms for dear life. So cute! We got about halfway down the hill when it started raining. By the time we got back to the home we were completely drenched, it was coming down so hard we weren’t sure if it was rain, or hail. It may not sound like it but we had a lot of fun! We were laughing the whole way, and I felt like a kid again, running through mud puddles.

-Brandi

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