We are back from our trip to Africa and are happy to say that it was a good week.
The hotel was within 5 minutes walking distance to the center. John and Isatu would get out of school at 1:00 and then come to the hotel to play games and hang out with us. Albert was taking an extra class so he didn't get out until 5:00 but he would still join us for dinner and we were able to go to the beach on Saturday. We were so happy to see some of our friends and get to spend time at lunches and dinners with them as well. On our last day there the TRS church full of kids I love prayed heavily for me. As usual we are blessed by the management, staff, and kids of TRS.
Thank you so much to all of you who contributed to this trip either directly or through the GoFundMe. It was a huge blessing to our family!
Nashville
Chicago
Chicago #2
Freetown
Freetown-the bus to the boat
Freetown-boat dock
Greeting John
Ivey and Isatu
Greeting Isatu
Frogs
A walk to the market
Nintendo ds and coloring books
observing the street traffic
Albert joins us for dinner with some enviable shades
Our family spent the last week in Africa and our army of AMAZING friends came and did all kinds of projects at our house. We bought this house about 6 months ago with the intention of doing these things ourselves because if you know me, you know I LOVE projects.
However, Murphy's Law kicked in and I found out that I had cancer a little over 3 months ago which has effected the speed of which these things are happening. So, our incredibly generous and talented friends took this opportunity to do some of those big ones for us. That included painting the exterier brick, installing an arbor in the back, a new Big Green Egg grill installed in a beautiful table, building a storage building, building a porch in the front, building wooden boxes around our carport posts, lots of landscaping, and lots of beautiful decorating! It is truly amazing!!! I was so shocked yesterday and today keep noticing more things as I am walking around in amazement and wonder at the things our 'superfriends/family' have done for us.
Here are the videos of the week in review;
The reveal:
https://www.facebook.com/dave.williamson.144/videos/10209823990550360/
I will do my best to post photos later in the day.
