A few days to remember

As it is custom when we have a visiting friend/pastor/speaker, we like to
put them to work doing lots of ministry (when Jamie is finished, he will
have spoken at two churches, a conference and a week at our bible school).
But, we also like to give them an opportunity to see a bit of Zambia. So, we
took Jamie and his two kids down to Livingstone for a little culturation!
We had a pretty amazing time. I am not sure even where to begin. We prayed
the first day of our time there that we would see a Rhino. And we did. An
amazing story of following a safari jeep, a guard meeting us and walking us
into the bush with his AK-47, and there, right in front of us, was the
biggest Rhino I have ever seen or dreamed of seeing... It was huge. These
guard have walked with the Rhino for 16 years, protecting humans from the
Rhino and the Rhino from poachers. We had an amazing sunset that evening. I
thought this was a sweet picture of Kamryn. We had cokes on the Zambezi at a
five star hotel (Only $2.50 a coke... Kamryn complained about the price,
until we told her that we are paying not just for the cokes but the scenery
and the zebras that roamed freely in the hotel grass!) The next day we went
to Botswana for another safari. We saw just about everything you would
dream of seeing, including two lions, just feet away from us, resting and
digesting after just killing and eating a huge Kudu. We saw Elephants and
Giraffes and I saw a Cape Buffalo which finished off my BIG 5!!!! (Elephant,
Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino!) Never dreamed I would ever see these
animals...

The best quote of the day was Brady after seeing incredible animals, witnessing the power of Victoria Falls, and watching the sun come down over the Zambezi, when talking to my wife over the phone, the first out of her mouth, "Mom, we ate lunch at 2:30!"

It was an encouraging week, dampened only by the fact that Stephanie and Rhoda and JoJo couldn't come. (Rhoda's passport still isn't ready!) So, Steph stayed back and we missed
them. Anyway, don't mean to rub it in, but thought you might like to hear
about it all...