Pictures from the trip

Here are a few pictures taken on our trip to Tanzania. We've had some camera difficulties where most of the pictures taken in Tungamalenga have strange color tints, but we have a photoshop expert on the case. Here are a few that turned out well from the end of the trip:

On our last day in Tungamalenga, Mom and I went exploring around the village while we waited for our friends to return from safari. You'll find many places to get your hair cut or braided, like the Francis Hair Cutting Saloon.

You'll also see lizards scuttling around. Aren't they cool?

When our group returned from safari, there was a send-off service for us at the church, and we had to say good bye to our friends. Here we are under the mbuyu, or baobab tree, with Barabeig evangelist Alex, his wife and their three children, right before we had to leave.

When I got on the bus, Alex's daughter told me through the open window, "Tutaonana tena, Mungu akipenda."

We will meet each other again, if God wishes it.

I sure hope so.

When we got back to Iringa about five hours later, we managed to get in touch with some university students sponsored by Shepherd of the Valley. This is Grace, whose mother Neema is a student at Tumaini University in Iringa.

Grace had been covering her eyes and being shy, but all of a sudden she popped up and gave this big smile, and she warmed right up to us.

Mom toured the Ilula Hospital (in the town of the same name, east of Iringa), where many of the patients are women and their newborns. This woman just had twins.

A stove for cooking at the guest house in Ilula, the morning we left for the airport to return home.