Road Trip

Hi everyone

Well not a whole lot has changed these past two weeks. We have been on Easter break for a week now, which is amazing. Tim and I have spent the entire last week just lazing about. We have caught up on some of the movies that were sent over to us. We are going to start watching West Wing this coming week :)
Tim and I took a little trip two weekends ago. We biked 40k to Dave's site and stayed a night there. We got to watch a soccer game between the teachers and kids at the school. It was a really interesting game. There was a man running around the field flicking a camel tail for good luck. It was so funny for us to see that, but weird at the same time. The man truly believes that flicking the tail at the field will send good gri-gri to the game. That night we make some pasta and sauteed veggie sauce by flashlight. That was such an interesting experience. The next morning we left Dave's and took our first bush taxi to Emma's site. The bush taxi was fun, but we got so dirty from it. There was a ton of dust in the air that weekend because of the wind. The sky was literally a haze of dust. Thus when we were riding in the bush taxi and they think it is better to keep the windows open to allow the dust to flow through the car, we were filthy by the end of the hour ride. It was really fun though. Emma's site is big. We were so impressed by everything we saw there. She even has a paved road in her village! The next day the three of us took a bush taxi to Kaya. This city is amazing. They have a leather market there. We are definitely going to have to visit there one more time before coming home. I really want one of their leather purses. Later that afternoon, we caught transport out to Mike's site. 10 other PCVs visited Mike's to kick back and chill. We went to a bar and had beer and chicken. The night at Mike's was absolute craziness, but it was fun too. The next morning, Tim and I headed back to Kaya and decided that we didn't want to wait four hour for transport so we started biking home. Along the way back home we stopped in at Rob's site and visited him for a half hour. We biked 40 of the 90k back to our village. It was a lot of fun and the road was so pretty. Tim did take in a little too much sun so he was a little sick later that night, but he was better the next morning.