Betty and Abella's trip

Breakfast in Entebee

 Betty and Abella are the two 12 year old girls that seem to be found at our house most days of the week. They have just started school holiday and we invited them to come along with us on our most recent trip to Kampala. These two have only traveled outside of Soroti one other time (to the swimming pool in Mbale with Shaardas) and haven't had opportunity to travel like this before. We left Soroti on Wednesday morning and drove a few hours then stopped for a picnic lunch and an hour of swimming at the pool in Mbale. This was their second time ever swimming.

With 0% body fat if they tread water frantically they could keep their heads above water long enough for me to take this picture.  

Then we packed back in the car and headed on to Siysi Falls, a water fall where we camped for the night.  They had never seen anything as lush and beautiful before. Betty told me "I didn't know Uganda looked like this!"

We slept at the bottom and hiked to the top.

Trying to get to get up.

Amazing view once you get there. 

The following morning we trekked up to the top of the waterfall- a very wet, slippery climb this time! We then came back down, enjoyed breakfast and packed back into the car and headed to Jinja and lake Victoria. We briefly showed the girls Owen Falls Dam, the country's Hydroelectric power station, which provides all of this country with electricity near the source of the Nile. We quickly moved on as we wanted to reach Entebee before dark. We had rented a banda at the zoo for the night and still needed to have supper.

We got up early to take Lacy to the airport where we wanted to show the girls the planes coming and going but there were no big flights there yet (the one Lacy was to leave on had not yet arrived).  So we  looked at the empty runway for a few minutes then headed out to find breakfast. We went back to the zoo to pack up and spend a few hours. It was really nice as it wasn't actually open yet. The animals were up and around because it was early and the girls seemed really impressed.  We stopped beside Lake Victoria to let the girls put their feet in then began the long drive back to Soroti. After stopping in Kampala for some much needed groceries of course.  Even groceries stores seemed to impress the girls. (One is like a small Walmart and was far more than they had ever experienced before.) We even had to hit the mall for a few adapters. We may have overwhelmed them a little. I would love to hear what they are going to tell their siblings when they recount everything they have seen and experienced.  

Standing in Lake Victoria.