Friday, July 18, 2014

High Adventure 2014

Tanner, Max Clark, Joe Hawkins, Alex Poulsen, Bryce LeBaron, Jeremy Percival, Nathan Braas, Brother Bob Leavenworth and Kirt
Packing the hideous scout trailer
Canoeing down Priest River



















 Jeremy found a penny in his huckleberry milkshake
Swimming in Priest Lake

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Buzz Cuts

These pictures were mid-haircut.  They did thankfully shave them the rest of the way off. 





Thursday, July 3, 2014

Africa Day 31 & 32

Today was a very long day.    We wanted to go and do a tour of the townships of Alexandra and Soweto.  We had met a tour guide when we were at the caves at the Cradle of Mankind who seemed really nice so we called her to see if she could come and give us a tour.  She said she could so we arranged for her to come and pick us up at noon.  Around 11 she texted and said she was going to be about an hour late.  She still had not come at 2.  At about 2:30, she came but was in a very small car.   She had tried to go and exchange her small rental car for a larger one, but they would not let her.  So after much debate, Kirt went to the airport with her and rented a larger car.  We then went on a very rushed tour of Alexandra and Soweto which was actually OK because we were all pretty tired and grumpy by this time.  Plus it was very difficult to see the poverty that so many of the people were living in.  After the tour, we went to the airport and started the long journey home-16 hours to Atlanta, 4 hours to Salt Lake and then 2 more hours to Spokane.  We got to Spokane around noon on the 4th of July.
2 families in Alexandra township that were living in houses that were about 12x12 for their whole house.  The 1st family only had 4 people but the 2nd family had 10.

One the street in Alexandra

One of the tract houses in Soweto
A preschool in Soweto
Nelson Mandala's house in Soweto which is now a museum

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Africa Day 30

We went to look at a famous German Church "Christuskirche" (Christ Church) in Windhoek this morning.  Then we went to an African history museum.  After that we flew from Windhoek to Johannesburg.  We all got upgraded to 1st class.  Then we stayed at Emerald Guest House in Joburg for the 3rd time.
Church




Museum



1st class
Emerald Guest House-It was right by the airport so there was this platform that you could stand on and watch the planes take off and land.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Africa Day 29

We drove through Etosha National Park so more today.  The animals are so beautiful.  We went to a rest camp inside the park that had a watering hole and there were so many animals there.  It was so fun to watch them come and go to drink at the watering hole.  It was also hilarious to watch how the animals all ran away when a baby elephant came to drink.  After we left Etosha, we drove to Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia.  We stayed at a bed and breakfast there.  They were supposed to have a really good restaurant too so we decided to eat dinner there.  The 1st course was the worst thing that Kirt or I had ever tasted.  We still don't know what it was, but it was awful.  Then we got to eat zebra steak.  Kirt was the only one that knew if was zebra at the time we were eating it.  I thought it was a bit chewy, but I thought that was because it was so rare (and that was after I had sent it back to be cooked more).  Kirt called the Dr. from the hotel that night and the Dr. said the blood malaria test was negative too, but that since Kirt had all the symptoms for malaria that he should go ahead and take the malarial drug that the Dr. had prescribed.  

Garret sitting on a zebra skin that was laying on the floor of the lobby in our hotel.
Another unknown deer like animal (DLA)
Pride of Lions
Ostrich
Elephant (the elephants were much smaller and skinny in Etosha)
Springbok

The flowing pictures are taken from the watering hole inside the rest camp
Kudo





Playing Settlers of Catan in our hotel in Windhoek
The unknown awful dish
Zebra steak
Delicious chocolate dessert with animals stamped in the cocoa for decoration