Back to work we go.

Today we all went back to work and daycare. Lyndin about jumped out the car in excitement when we pulled into daycares driveway. I had a pile of jobs to work on but got caught up by 4. Will left way before I even thought about waking up and won't be home to late. Back to reality.

Time to go back to reality.

As we are sitting at the gate waiting for our first 9 hour flight I have some time to reflect.

This was an AWESOME adventure but it is safe to say we all miss home. It was great to spend time with family and see how the other half of v56 farms live. As different as it may be to us, they love it. We miss our crazy schedules and little together time but the time we do spend together is priceless.

Lyndin misses her animals more than anyone can understand. Every time we saw an animal she just melted over here. We all miss the freedom the farm offers for us 3. Lyndin has her daily chores which she enjoys doing. What would take us 10 minutes to do takes her 1 hour but we wouldn't ever speed her up. I will never let anyone take that freedom and chores away from her. It is her time to be alone with her animals and unwind from the day.

I miss the flexibility of being able to go and do what I want when I want. In Africa we needed a driver everywhere we went. I enjoy my freedom to plan my own schedule and just go. I also miss the quite and serenity of the farm. With just the three of us there it is quite. The animals respond better to quite soft voices to lead them and with just us 3 we can offer that.

I think will misses the freedom to do what he needs to do. At home he goes and does what he needs without a worry where Lyndin and i slowed him down here. I think he finally realized why I ask for 5 minutes alone when he finally walks through the door at night. I may not always get it but hopefully he will now understand why I need it.

We are all ready to go back to being a family of three and back into our routine. We are ready to break Lyndin of same bad habits she learned over there and go back to our normal.

It is 10:30pm in Africa so our first flight is over night. Praying for lyndin to sleep so maybe I can get some rest.

Talk to everyone when we get HOME, WHERE OUR HEARTS ARE!

Relaxing day

2 days until we get back on the plane to iowa. I must admit I miss home and I think everyone else does to. Lyndin would do anything to have her animals with her again and her freedom to run.

This morning, Saturday, July 1, Will and i went to our schedule eye appointments. Eye exams only cost $5 here so we took the opportunity to get our exams and ordered some glasses at half the price as home.

Next we went for sushi...yes us cattle farmers LOVE sushi. Over here most restaurants have play places for the kids and most parents bring the kids' nanny with them to supervise. I have learned that i am the Nanny, the gardener, the driver, the housekeeper, the mom and the wife. Definitely a different life style over here.

Mossaui market

Every Friday at village center they have mossaui market which is similar to our farmers market but with homemade crafts and goods. In Africa there is never a final price. The sellers give you a price and you start to dicker so i was pretty excited as I love to dicker. We walked out of the market with many great souvioners at prices we would be embrassed to say in the states.....so cheap! Will has always wanted a pair for Angola cow horns, while he didn't get exactly what he wanted..he got a pretty cool pair. Tonight we are going to visit the david sheiskel elephant orphanage, which we always hear Samuel talking about. Lyndin has an adopted elephant named Rapa there that we often get updated on so we are excited to actually meet him.

The elephant orphanage is only open from 5 - 6pm for visitors. We didnt arrive until 5:30pm due to their usual traffic so we didn't get to see the elephants coming in for their bottles. The elephants range from a couple years old to 2 years old. The goal is to rehabilitate them to survive in the wild. Each elephant has a keeper with them 24 hours a day. They even sleep in their rooms on bunks. During the day the elephants are able to go into the national park to find food and exercise, then at night they are brought into their pens for safe keeping. The young ones have to be bottle fed every 3 hours.

We were able to see rapa and get some pictures. It was pretty amazing.