The End of Our vacation at Lake Malawi

Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 10:06

  Our time at Lake Malawi is coming to a close. The girls and I, Mom and Jono were in the lake at 6:30 am playing freeze tag. Mom wore me out in a chase…I think we are about the same strength in swimming because she couldn’t catch up and I couldn’t pull ahead. We finally gave up in exhaustion. The lake is as calm as can be this morning and we swam near a few fishing dugout canoes.  During the night the fisherman have lanterns and it looks much like a town out there.

Last evening we played dare base. At first Jason and I were the only adults playing…and since we were the adults the kids had to play by our rules, which we found out are quite antiquated by the kid’s standards. Oh, well!! Fair or no fair we were the adults. J We had fun until it kind of got dark and there was a major collision. Brianna was the casualty and so it was back to kick-the-can.  The kids had a good game of Annie, Annie Over with the Kirbys earlier and I think it might be one of their favorites now.

The Kirbys ordered cake for Emily’s birthday from the lady at the restaurant. They ordered a chocolate cake with frosting and a cinnamon nut cake. Working along with other cultures makes life interesting. Cinnamon nut cake to a German lady here is actually cinnamon rolls – but they were very good.

Seems some of the kids have had a contest to see how many teeth they could lose while they were in Africa. Someone was always losing a tooth. This morning Sam lost his third one and a second later Bethany lost her third tooth. Brianna was getting after Bethany for not flossing well enough…. She took a look in her mouth and changed her mind. Too many missing teeth to make much of flossing.

Jon and Leila had a close call in the lake yesterday. Suffice to say the angels were on guard and helped Jon because with the crash of the waves none of us could hear his call for help. He said he only felt that out of control one other time in his life and that was his experience on the glacier with Tom.

We have enjoyed the calm and quiet time with Jason and Antionette and mom. We were able to sit and visit a lot on the beach which was very nice. The trip here to the lake was beautiful, so I expect a good trip back. We are using a Land Cruiser and Mom’s pick-up with a cap. We all fit – sorta!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 10:00 - Link

Sooooo, What happened with Jon and Leila in the waves? You kind of left that story hanging. No detail at all just that he felt out of control in the water but why?
Julie