I will put more posts up here about my trip, but in a few more days I will have a bizillion more photos from the rest of my team, so I will share when I know I have the best pictures to show ya'll. Have great days until then!

We spent the first thursday through Saturday morning at the Zaks and then left for Polokwane, SA where we met up with Samaria Mission. Here we are packing up the combie (van) to head to Polokwane. Kevin Z and 2 of his sons- Nathan and Ben- spent the first 4 days with us in Mozambique. It was so much fun spending time with all 3 of them there and the rest of the family in SA















Sorry some of these pictures are repeats. I don't know how to erase them.

So we had to stop at KFC. It was funny to see their slogan fits in there too. KFC is very popular there. We saw about 2-3 KFC and only 1 or 2 McDonalds.













One of the things we got to do to help Sarah Zak was help her cater a mothers/teen daughters luncheon and tea. (Tea is very big there! Roibos tea.) We had a lot of fun doing that. One thing we found out, is that they do not sell chocolate chips in South Africa. South Africans do not know about chocolate chip cookies. SOO SAD!

Well, everyone I am back from my FANTASTIC African trip. So many stories and exciting adventures. Many sad sites too. I have so many pictures to post. I will share leg by leg of my trip here over a couple of days, and maybe post a lot of pictures on my facebook page. Here are pictures of the day we took off and the first couple days with the Zakariasens. They are one fantastic family! The first full day with them, we visited a Creche (daycare-I thought I had some pictures of this, but I guess I only have video) and also a nursing home. The nursing home was run by a very sweet loving lady, but she only had so much money to work with. Abundant poverty in South Africa. We also got a tour of the Bethesda orphanage, but I did not really get any good pictures there, just a couple. Very nice facilities. We met a young man out in the community one day who had grown up in a Bethesda home. It was fun to talk with him. Elaine bought a (unity gift-headbands) for all the girls to open at the airport the morning we took off.