Anna finished up her second year of law school, packed up her room as well as packing for Zambia and got on the plane.
The same day that she headed to the airport, Fritz finished up his 7th grade school year.
We headed for Lusaka at 8:30am the day before picking her up to allow for some shopping-stopping at three different plant nurseries and a few stores.
Then we headed south to a new area of Zambia for us, the lower Zambezi.
We saw some fossilized trees, visited the national park, and took a boat ride from the river lodge just a few minutes down the Kafue river to the Zambezi river -seeing LOTS of hippos.
In the national park we saw the big 4 [no rhinos in the park]: elephants, lion, water buffalo, and Anna got to see her first leopard.
We had basically given up looking for one, when she happened to see one through the underbrush back aways.
Thankfully it stayed the bit of time it took backing up so we could all see it before it hurried away.
Plenty of monkeys, baboons, impala, zebras, water buck...and new birds for us: open billed stork, crested guinea-fowl, battler (near threatened) and a white-crowned lapwing.
Driving through the game management area just outside the park we also saw a civet cross the road and a side-striped jackal.
Classes have started up for the third term of the Bible college year.
Cory taught his first class today bringing with him fruits for the students to sample: dates, star fruit and red dragon fruit.
He found the fruits at a small supermarket in the small town of Monze, imported from South Africa.
He was excited that the star fruit had plenty of seeds to be planted since none of the nurseries have had it so far.
Cory also shared dates last year but several of the first year students had never tasted a date so it was fun that they could try a fruit mentioned in the Bible.
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| Rare eagle |
The star fruit and dragon fruit was probably a first tasting for all the students.
One of our stops in Lusaka was to someone he had learned about on-line who sells "exotic" fruit trees.
A kindred spirit, the gentleman loves fruit trees, collecting from his Indian neighbors their rare (for Zambia) mango varieties that he grows and sells.
We plan to return to buy additional trees, he needs to get the less common varieties from his farm outside of town ahead of the visit.
We will then put them at the national church office while we head north to Copper country and pick them up when we swing back by on our way back to Jembo.
So for this week we'll stay here and show Anna Jembo.
We already enjoyed chapel and just hanging out as a family.
Next week we'll show her Choma, Zimba, and Livingstone.
Family time is such a blessing.
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| Elephant road block |
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| Fossil tree trunks |
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