Weekend Away

 This past weekend Jillian (a Canadan friend who also lives here in Soroti and works for World Vision) talked me into taking a weekend trip. She was considering a resort with a pool and masseuse.   Then somehow Saturday morning we found ourselves headed up to Karamoja. I’m sure she was asking herself what the heck she was thinking while lying under her truck the first time.   Several bolts that hold her bullbar on (possibly liberated to new owners?) were missing so the connecting rod had snapped with the added weight. Due to the exceptionally poor road conditions we were very concerned that if we let it continue to bounce that the second rod would also snap, (it was quite heavy, trust me I was the one holding it up while she tied it back on!). So we cut some rope off the tarp she keeps over the back and tried to tie it back on.

Just a little glimpse of the road we were broken down on.

The rope rubbed through in a few very short kilometers. So we pulled over again, still in the middle of nowhere and put it back together again- this time with newspaper too and managed to make it to Iriri. 

Who says you can't fix a car with rope and newspaper

We found some nice guys who would sell us some bolts and even installed said parts for us. An hour later, after wandering from one end of “town” to the other, took all of 5 minutes, and sitting in the "general store" for a while, to receive stared from EVERYONE who walked through "town" the car was put back together and we drove the remaining hour and a half without incident.  We had a nice restful weekend hanging out with Heidi, playing cards and cooking together. Sunday we packed back up and headed back to Soroti. 

Heidi and I outside her house. 

The highlight for me was the few day old baby ostrich that is living on their compound. She loved people and would follow feet around for hours.  

Few day old baby ostrich.

This baby would fall asleep in my hands. So sweet. 

Jillian, who was thinking of a massage this weekend but
instead got a makeover. 

* The formating on this is ridiculous and blogger is ticking me off tonight so I know the font changes 3 times and the captions/pictures/text are messed up but I can't seem to fix it. Sorry.