This will be our final Macha trip post-as we're headed out of Macha tomorrow morning at 8 a.m to meet with the Bishop in Choma and arrive in Livingstone (home of Victoria Falls!!) early afternoon. We will spend time at the falls tomorrow (Friday) and wake up bright-and-five a.m-early on Saturday for a morning of driving through a safari! We have been gearing Liam up for this the entire week, talking about elephants, zebras, and giraffes galore! We will do a few more tourist type things on Sunday, meet with good friends of the Thuma's-and head home early Monday morning (arriving in PA Tuesday night). Those are the plans for the upcoming days...now here's what today looked like:

We woke up and headed out the door by 9 a.m to see the 'famous' dam Eric (and Michael) speak so highly of. Myself, Eric, Dave, and Liam (via stroller) walked about 20 minutes while Elaine and Christie drove-and enjoyed a good amount of time skipping rocks, hearing stories from the Thuma's childhood (which does include DRINKING from the gross stagnant water) and exploring. We were glad to have gotten there early-the sun was bright as ever-and we were happy to have a ride back to the house. We stopped shortly-to intercept a chameleon who was attempting to cross the road-who was not so impressed to be brought into the air conditioned car. Liam loved watching it's eyes move all directions-but after a few minutes-began turning darker (making his dissatisfaction known) and we put him back where we found him.

After arriving home, many of us when to visit a dear friend of Elaine-who sat with us on her back porch and talked about how different life can be for all of us, depending on where we live and what we believe. It was nice to spend time chatting, disregarding a time schedule, and simply enjoying the company of a lovely woman and her family.

We headed home and jumped back into the car for lunch at a local restaurant. Lucky for us, we phoned our order in the day before-because apparently being a walk-in could result in hours worth of waiting. Many of us enjoyed either a burger or fried chicken-and we all had our own order of fries-there is nothing like eating fries that have been picked and fried all within a few hours.

After dinner we drove to a local village-one owned by Stembridge, a man who works for the maintenance crew here. He is good friends of Eric (and Michael) and we were treated to ibbwatu (indescribable-but let it be known, Christie finished hers completely while Dave took two sips). Liam found a girlfriend-a young daughter of Stembridge-and we do indeed have pictures of them holding hands!! We saw birds of every sort and pigs-needless to say, Liam was not happy leaving.

That takes us to now-a few games of dice away from calling it a night and turning more touristy than we already are...here we come Victoria Falls and Livingstone Safari.

We have been blessed to be here-in more ways than we can begin to describe-and like previously stated, really look forward to going into more detail with each one of you as we return home shortly.

Thank you for your prayers and your interest in our journey.

All our love,

Corie, Eric, Dave, Christie, and Liam