Happy Birthday Ya Erin

Erin's birthday celebration at the centre

















Cupcake time!














Reading birthday cards the kids made for erin
















Our little Vero enjoying her cupcake






























Out at Masai camp with Trisha from England and Sue from Boston














The presentation that Erin's birthday dessert came on, yes they are veggies, and yes it was chocolate cake. TIFA













Out with our people

2 mazungus and 3 african safari

Road trip

Visiting a Massai village

lucky us, our first camp site had a bar

Chui yuko kwenye mti (leopard is walking in the tree)

riding on the roof of the car at Lake Manyara, erin almost fell off during this picture

Tembo anakunywa maji (elephant drinking water)

Ngorongoro crater, pictures don't do it justice.

Simba (lion)

Tembo anatembea kwenye camping site (elephant was walking in our camp site)

Where we camped at Ngorongoro crater

Randoms

Friday game day

Mount Kilimanjaro, we got to go to the national park to see it. It was very intimidating, but we still want to climb it next time we come back.

The government is having an election this year, so mama said that they start to do things around the city so people will vote for them. This is the road that our house is off of, and it was in horrible shape, huge pot holes everywhere and you had to literally drive 5mph to go on it. The government brought dirt in to put a new layer over all the holes, and it is much better now!

We walk up and down this hill a few times a day, its probably about 20min to go up, and 10 min to walk down. And everyone says jambo mazungu(hello white people), little kids run up to you just to touch your hand, its really cute!

Living Water Children Centre

Here are the rooms where the kids sleep. When we got here there were no mosquito nets up yet, and Shelly and Linda(two girls from Canada) put them up!

This is the orphanage, and also a school where kids can attend during the day. This school has baby class, intermediate, grade one and grade two.

The location of LWCC is right by the house we stay at, we just have to walk through a corn field, up a hill and we are there!






This is the gate to get into LWCC. There is also a watch guard during the day, so you usually just bang on the door and he greets you.

This is part of the path that we walk on to

get from our house to the center. You never

know what friends you might run into :)