and now for the children

A little boy plays with a bicycle tire and a stick to keep it rolling, another sits up on a hill to keep various creatures, such as monkeys, out of the planted fields, children with hoes over their shoulders to spend a day with their mothers in the fileds, boys and girls in school uniforms walking on unpaved roads, often at a distance, sometimes barefooted, holding hands to get an education, and carrying yellow containers to fetch water for their family.  Peggy and I were enchanted by the faces of the children we encountered during our time in Uganda and Rwanda.  If only children in the US realized how much they have and take for granted.  Now for some photos:

School children performed native dances for us....these girls balanced baskets on their head while dancing !

Lodging

Our accomodations varied from hotels to luxury tents.  It was the latter that we really enjoyed...especially the ones where we had to tell them what time we wanted to shower and what temperature water we wanted.  Water was poured into a receptacle above our shower head and we learned to get wet, soap up, put the water back on and rinse.  We did so well we actually had water left.

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More of our adventure

I'm not sure if anyone else is reading this but I'm still going to blog as it has become a journal of sorts.  I was looking through some of my video and wanted to share some others from our gorilla trek.  Again, I am still learning how to use the camera so ignore the parts that seem to focus on nothing in particular.