June 24

LISA:

After another run-in with the lady at our lodge place, we managed to escape before she came out to try to get more money again. I’m not really sure what the deal was, I just knew that Dad was not backing down. And so we left. We were planning on going to Jonathan Larson’s church, but unfortunately we had no means to find out where this was at 8 in the morning. So we went to Open Baptist Church instead. It was a pretty cool church and it had upbeat worship music and the lead singer had a really good voice. We stayed afterwards for tea and refreshments and met some interesting people. One of our favorites was Mary, a woman from Ghana, who kept giving us peanuts because “Americans love peanuts!” We then drove to the mall to get some food for lunch and to e-mail the people at the guesthouse so we could actually get in the place tonight. We drove to the Lion Park and ate at this picnic table, but it turns out they shut down the Lion Park a few years ago after one of the lions ate somebody. Poor Tau. He’ll just have to wait until later to see some of his relatives. Anyway, we drove to Ramotswe, where Nic was born and I was hospitalized when I decided to stop breathing after I was born. We took several awkward pictures of us standing next to signs and rooms and whatnot. There will be many more of these to follow. So awkward. Like really, what are you supposed to do with yourself when it’s just you and this sign?? Nicole did a very touching interpretive birthing dance for us, and if you are lucky, we might even show you this video. We drove back and finally got into the guesthouse and talked to the people there and whatnot. Then we all sat around until it was almost dark, and since we are extremely intelligent people, we decided this would be a great time to start driving around in the city we clearly do not know anymore and look for our old houses. Of course, darkness fell and we drove around several streets with mom exclaiming “ooooh it’s right down here!! I know it!! Awwww man we I KNOW it’s in this area somewhere!” We did manage to find one of the houses, however, and we will be revisiting that in the daylight. When we got back to the house, Erin made us some tasty French toast ham and cheese sandwiches. I’m pretty sure nothing remarkable happened between supper and when we went to bed.

Lisa