Photos from Girls Weekend!
February 18, 2013
Our trip to Kikongo, just Sara and I, for five days was fantastic! However, I’ve been ridiculously busy ever since we got back, that I haven’t even been able to write it all down. So, here are pictures…and I am counting on Sara to write more at her blog once her plane lands and she, too, is settled. For further reference to many of the sights and stories of Kikongo, read about our last trip there as a family with Nick and Jocelyn, and her sister Nicole.
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- In the plane, ready to go!
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- This is as far as we got on the puzzle, finding uninterrupted reading for more valuable during our getaway!
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- The kerosene fridge – Rita was not happy her flame was not even…
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- Some people left their personal stuff around the house…
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- My bed!
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- The water system is gravity fed – this is the bathroom water, especially for bucket flushing the toilet
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- Rita found a chick in the trash hole and pulled it out! It was quickly reunited with its mother!
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- Rita’s cookbooks were quite fascinating and a great way to spend a Saturday morning
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- Is this not awesome!? (Leopoldville is the former name of Kinshasa.)
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- One of my favorite quotes…
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- A storm was coming to cool us
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- Glen and Rita’s coffee plant! Rita picked, roasted, shelled, ground, and brew the coffee all in a day – it was quite good!
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- Glen and Rita’s gorgeous home
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- Neighborhood boys – culturally universal
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- The only Congo Clawless Otter in captivity int he world…asking for snails
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- On his nightly walk with Rita
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- The otter and Sara walking down the runway to the river
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- I can’t remember what this animal is called, but it was so cute looking in at us like this
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- Giant spiders were sort of a theme – sort of ironic for a girls weekend
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- More adorable neighborhood boys!
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- The church that Rita’s grandfather built is still in use each Sunday
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- The pastoral school in Kikongo is Glen and Rita’s main ministry
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- Sara preparing for her first paraplane ride with Glen
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- This adorable kitten also kept us entertained
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- GIANT spider – the biggest I’ve seen in my life. His name is George.
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- A day in the lab – this test is still done in the US, though blood-filled syringes with needles still attached are not generally left out
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- Tracking tuberculosis in the village
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- HIV test – finger poke and 15 minutes
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- Testing for microfilaria requires a skin sample, using a needle and a razor blade for collection
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- The official “receipt” from the hospital of Sara’s hospital group’s donations
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- Me and the lab technicians
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- OSHA not approved
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- A small village we landed in on our way back – the building in the back in a Catholic hospital
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- My Vanga pineapple had its own seat
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- Nancy Smith’s warm reception back to the village after many months away – if only you could have heard the singing!!
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- The truck with all the supplies followed us up to the their house (where they invited us for lunch!) and the singing continued!
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- Sara and I ready to go home!
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- Jim Smith after clearing the goats off the runway and telling pilot David Francis we were good to go!
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- Kinshasa skyline
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- A typical street in Kinshasa
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The Lind Family 
You got a lot of pictures that I didn’t… I may steal some of these. 🙂 I also totally forgot to copy of my pics to your computer…so I will burn you a disc and keep it here for you with your stuff. Everything made it just fine!