July 7th (Saturday)

I woke up around 7am this morning when I heard Fiona up and about. She had decided she was going up to hospital to see what was happening and to do ward rounds with JR. She has a hard time taking a “day-off”, she gets bored pretty quickly and likes to be doing stuff. I did go back to sleep until 8:45 and thought I heard some knocking. Nicole had apparently work up and had an unsettled stomach -this has occurred several times this trip and we think it may be due to the malaria medication. So she decided to implement Dr. Lipsi’s observations about elderly people to stimulate their bowels would drink a warm liquid in the morning. So she had a cup tea and a slow morning and it seemed to help. I came out to join her and ate my porridge to get down my crushed malaria pill.

After Fiona got back around 10am she said there had been men that met her on the path saying that they knocked on the door at the Annex to ask for a job, but the sisters were sleeping, haha! Fiona directed them to talk to Ruth.

We then walked to the “farm” to go get a tray of eggs for our baking and last few days here. When we got back I started making a pineapple upside down cake, which turned out quite well. While I was baking the girls had went out on the back porch to read in the sun for awhile. When I went out after the cake was in the oven it got quite cloudy, so that was disappointing. It was also windy so that made it a little chilly.

We relaxed and read until 4pm as we were going to Mwangala’s house, she is the x-ray technician here at the hospital trained under Dr. Rodney. She had invited Fiona to come over to catch the England vs Sweden game, we weren’t going to miss it, I mean it was the quarterfinals of the World Cup! We went over and she had her friend Audrey there putting in a new weave that gave her a cool new hairstyle. It was the first football match that Nicole had watched all the way through. She said she liked it and that made Fiona and I pretty happy! Also England won so what could be better?

As we were walking back to our house we noticed that the sun was setting and it looked SO beautiful that we decided to take a detour and watch the sun set. It was another incredible African sunset! We are truly blessed that God paints such beautiful colours in the sky for us to enjoy. We got back home and made supper at the late hour of 7pm, Tiffany would have been proud. We made our African staple meal of cabbage and carrots fried with beef and baked potato wedge fries.//