Wednesday, June 3: Golf Hotel

Today we just took it easy. A walk up town to the Internet, then on to the Golf Hotel for a noontime snack. I also had business at the bank. This time it was Kayla, David, Sarah, Gail and I, and Evey and Lisa.

The hotel restaurant was fairly busy, but we got to sit outside on the shaded patio. It was very pleasant. We ordered drinks, 4 Stoneys and 3 Alvaraos. Ten minutes later the waitress came back with one Stoney - the last one. We reordered (but no one asked for coffee). Evey remarked that they had a lot of soups on the menu, so I asked the waitress what flavors they had today (to save some time). She said, cream of tomato, and then she stopped talking. Evey asked me, after the waitress left, how I knew to ask. I replied, experience (see Monday's post for explanation).

David and Gail visited the gift shop, and David got a shirt for his birthday (tomorrow). The shop owner knows Herb and Virginia, and Gail mentioned them, so she gave them a good deal on the shirt, reducing the price without Gail asking.

Gail, Evey, David, Kayla, Lisa, and Sarah headed off to a store called Fomat to buy some tea for Herb (who is recovering nicely). I went to the bank. The store Herb had recommended did not have the right tea, so Kayla, Lisa, and Sarah headed to Mama Watosos to look there, while the others headed home.

Kayla is the hero for finding the right tea. Lisa and Sarah bought ingredients for bakeless cookies for all the kids. That was their activity when they returned to MTTF. The kids enjoyed them very much after dinner.

One of the board memebers, Zebedee, showed up for dinner. He asked me how the seminar at MMUST went. He is interested in learning more about computers, so we set up a lesson for Monday with Charles, my other student. I helped a few children with their Math homework, then we prepared for our trip to Uganda. We are going to take one of the boys from the home with us so he can see how another orphanage operates. His name is David. He is 16 years old. Hopefully the letter Charles wrote will be sufficient identification to get him across the border.