Home

It is good to be home.  Strangely the thing that is really hard  for me to get use to, is the cold.  The six weeks I was  away only added up to about 4 days of cool weather.  It was hot in Lilongwe and hot in Nairobi.  I had a 6 hour layover in Nairobi.  They do not have air conditioning in the airport.   I didn't take a jacket for the plane because I have been so hot.  When I heard it snowed in Denver, I  still wasn't too concerned till I hit Amsterdam and felt the cold.  I e-mailed Kathy to throw in a jacket for the ride home.  The trip home was  around 36 hours, that does not include the four hour drive from Mzuzu to Lilongwe that we did on Friday.  As we were driving down I was thankful we didn't do the drive the same day we were to leave.  The trip home would have been over 40 hours of travel.

The ride down from Mzuzu had some interesting moments.  The roasted mice vendors were out,  some of the MMs wanted to take pictures so we stopped.  They waved a little money at them to  compensate for letting their picture be taken.  I didn't get a picture, it is pretty gross.  The mouse vendor probably made more money having his picture taken then selling roasted mice.

Then there were the funny signs ....
DEAD SLOW
ENERGY COFFINS   24 hours
HOPEFUL SHOPPING

We laugh at the way they say things but they think we are pretty weird too.