Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Malealea - Camping and Horseback Riding

Well this weekend we decided to head off to go camping just to get away. On the way there we decided to use a friend of a leader here and well it was an experience. He took us in two smaller cars through a bumpy dirt road and well we made it but we had to stop only a short bit before we got there because a few of the screws off of the caliper came off and the breaks where not working that well. After they fixed the problem with a coat hanger...its africa.... we made it safely there. After a wonderful meal of sausages and such cooked over the fire we went to bed. That night one of our teammates got very sick with what seemed to be a fever and body aches and she was unable to go horseback riding with us on that saturday. As we left for horseback riding we went though these gorgous hills and valleys...I will have pictures later... and we eventually made it to this waterfall that landing into this amazing rock pool. Once we trekked down to the waterfall we jumped in pool getting a shower from the waterfall above. Once we made it back on horseback I saw that my legs where very burnt but only around the thigh leaving an ugly looking sun burn. That night we met some south africans and after eating our wonderful lamb steak (it was cheaper than beef) we joined them around the fire and I got an insight into what it meant to be south african and about there local politics. The next day is where things turned a bit sour. We where suppose to be back around 1pm but our ride was 7 hours late...yeah 7 hours.. So as we sat around we at least had some added bonding time. Once they finally arrived they made up a story which we couldn't put the pieces together to validate and they also wanted twice the money agreed upon. After getting home around 9:30pm we where welcomed by some worried staff that didn't go on the trip. Although we had a few road bumps it was great to get away for a weekend before we head back into learning about the Lord.

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