Animals!!!

Today was our first full day in Livingstone. We're staying at the Holy Cross Convent, which is a palace compared with the friarys. Hot water, consistent power, an internet signal that we can... um... borrow from the house next door, and a bathroom with no surprises are all included! It is very good to be back with Nama as well. Unfortnuately, Sister Agnes, who was planning to be with us for much of our time in Livingstone is out on bereavement as her fatehr passed away suddenly. She was kind enough to stay in town to greet us at Cheshire homes, and did a lot of work to get tomorrow's meeting set up, but we will not see her again this trip.

Because of some schedule changes along the way with our trip, we had a free day today, and used it to go to the game park on the outside of town. We saw a huge assortment of animals, including many giraffes, a pack of zebras, a couple elephants, some hippos, countless impalas, and a white rhino, which we watch from just about 15 yards away for quite some time, under the watchful eye of an AK-47 toting game warden, who is in charge of tracking the rhinos so that poachers don't shoot them. Will try to get some photos posted.

We have one more training session with a group of teachers and education administrators tomorrow, and will then spend the last couple days with some much needed R & R. We've made some plans to go to Chobe National Park in Botswana on Monday, and will go to the falls, probably on Sunday afternoon. The trip is beginning to wrap up, so we're looking forward to seeing many of you very soon.