Random Pictures

Well this is Zanzibar, an island we went to a few weekends ago!!! It was amazing! We took a bus 8 hours through Tanzania to Dar es Salaam....and AFRICAN bus!! The most intense bus ride you can imagine, that's an African bus ride! We were blessed to get on one that wasn't jam packed, but they drive SO fast, and of course there really aren't many enforced speed limits, no stop lights, and the buses pass cars and other buses in traffic like I've never seen before, so SCARY! At one point I had to lay down and not watch....that was after we saw tons of people sitting on the side of the road with their luggage, and a bus like ours flipped over on it's side!!! Yikes! The hotel picture was where we stayed! The picture of Peter and Hope is the view from our room's window!

This picture where we are posing.....the guys on the spice tour made us hats and rings and neclaces and purses from leaves!! It was SO cool!

The"spice tour" in Stonetown. It was a learning experience for sure! This tour shows how many spices that we use everyday grow. For example, the vanilla bean grows on a vine, cinnamon from the bark of a tree, and nutmeg is a seed in the middle of a fruit. You would be amazed at the things grown here. No more having to waste money on lipstick...they grow some kind of fruit you can wear as lipstick!!! If I tried to spell the names of some of these I would butcher them so bad, so I won't even try!! It was really cool because at the end of the tour, men climb up the coconut trees in their bare feet to pick them.

Our guide took us on a tour of Stonetown and the former slave market sites.

In the picture with us all, we were sitting on the ground in the place where the slaves on this island used to get auctioned off, so very sad. It was a very real and heartwrenching experience to walk through the places where human lives were once treated so incredibly awful.

On the 2 hour ferry from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar, met many interesting people!

This is the meat market there.....if you look on the sides you will see random pieces of meat just hanging, and people walk by and just buy what they want! Really makes us appreciate our nicely packaged meat in our stores huh?!! :-)

Oh yes, and this last picture I wanted to show you how sweet the ladies at the hotel were to mom on her birthday!! She had an amazing birthday on Zanzibar, and got to go snorkeling for the first time as well!

Please keep us in prayer, we will be having a women's conference Saturday, last year there were 800 women, this year could be more...C'mon Jesus!!! Please pray for the Lord's will to be accomplished!