Over Half Way

We are a little past the half way point and we still have a lot of stuff to do.  We all started yesterday painting in the new babies house.  The ladies and Dr. Mark are diligently working at putting the texture on and making it look nice.  That's beyond my imagination.  There are only so many people who can paint at one time so the girls and I have found other things to do.  Today was pretty amazing.  We painted this morning, we went to Bujagali Falls this afternoon.  We paid a guy to get in this bucket that the ladies carry on their heads and ride down a  huge rapid.  It was pretty intense.  It was also his idea.  They will basically do anything for a schilling over here.  Please take note that this is not like the Ocoee.  Shopping in Jinja was next on the agenda.  We had a drink in a coffee shop and Claudia took us to a store that one of her friends owns.  She is a believer.  Let's just say that she could probably come close to retiring after we were done.  Items are so inexpensive over here and they are very nice.  I didn't think we were going to have to worry about the 50 pound weight limit on the way home, but I was wrong.  Tomorrow we will be going into a local village to help a family out and then we are coming back for day 4 of VBS in the afternoon.  Tomorrow night, Liza, Charlie, and the girls will be doing a youth devotion.  Shauna and I will lead a devotion for the missionaries.  Dr. Mark will continure painting.  On a side note, Dr. Mark has seen all of the children at the orphanage, the missionaries, and the missionaries' children in the past 2 mornings.  He will see the house moms tomorrow morning.  This is approxamately 125 people in 2 days.

One neat thing that happened was on Tuesday.  Dr. Mark put the glider rockers together at Claudia's house.  A man who works at the shop here at the orphanage came to see them.  The gliders have ottomans to go with them but we had to leave them at CrossPointe because we had no room for them.  Claudia asked the man if he could look at the model of the glider, which they didn't even know existed, and see if he can make an ottoman similar to that.  He is going to practice on hers and then he will have a similar model that he can use in Africa to sale.  So these gliders were not only used to bless the orphanage, but also this man, because he will be able to sale them, and to Africa, because the people here have never seen one before.  God is Good!!!!