Rained Out

When you hear the words "This is the worst winter we have had in 20 years" - do you wonder why you are there?

Our 'beach vacation' week has been hurricane winds and torrential rains so far.  Of course, Sunday was beautiful - but Monday and Tuesday have been rain and more rain, and cold. (Remember it is winter here!)

However... Do you think that would stop my kids from trying to head to the beach?  Of course not.  Brennen and McKenzie thought they could still boogie board.  "What?  We are going to get wet anyway!"  

Ready to go out

You can see how gray and rough the ocean is looking

This is returning about 4.2 minutes later (and Brennen didn't even get in the water).

McKenzie and Spencer have both found huge sand crabs during the short times we've walked on the beach.  It is supposed to clear up in the next couple of days, so we should get at least a day to lounge on the beach!

We have hung out, read, shopped, and been to more members homes for dinner.  Today we drove to Amanzimtoti to a sort of orphanage.  Fifteen children who have been abandoned in different situations have been adopted by one lady.  A service organization out of Holland has sent in several volunteers that will stay for a couple of weeks at a time and help with schooling, homework, cooking, building, etc...  We toured their facility and learned about what they are doing there.  It is an incredible organization. 

Trying to find this place today we were driving around for over an hour - looking for the street, but we had missed one road and all the street signs have been stolen so it was difficult to find where we were going.  I am fascinated by the homes and living conditions we see.  Here are more homes we saw today:

This was our favorite new way to deal with the rain - wear a plasic bag on your head.  We've seen lots of people wearing garbage bags and attempts at using umbrellas, but this was the best.

This is Seke - she is the 2 year old daughter of one of the maids here.  We gave her a Happy Factory car and the next time we saw her it was strapped onto her back.  We loved it!