A Weekend to Remember

Habari!

I might venture to say I've just had one of the best weekends in years, or possibly ever. It was so much fun and I could honestly cry thinking about leaving Bukoba. I can't believe I need to take the ferry back this Wednesday night. I make everyone stop talking about it when it gets brought up!

Friday night was the night in the Bandas--so much fun! I have so many great stories and memories. The Bandas were really nice and we sat on the beach around a campfire and looked at the stars until really late. It was beautiful  was amazing to wake up in a banda to the sound of Lake Victoria. We even got up to watch the sunrise. Saturday afternoon we headed off to William's village. We hiked while we were there and we had a huge meal of matoke, pilau, beans, and meat with banana leaves as spoons under the stars. Our group layed out on a big tent outside for hours after dinner. We slept in tents outside under the banana trees (that I obviously helped to pitch, Brian--the years of tenting in Crane really paid off!). In the morning we basically scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro to get to church (okay fine, it was just a very steep hill but it felt mountainous). Church was...long (2 and a half hours of Roman Catholicism in Swahili--oofta). It was definitely interesting to see though and I'm really glad we went! We spend yesterday afternoon at the beach and relaxed.

I guess its hard for me to describe well how great this weekend and whole trip has been. I can't wait for safari but I'm sad to leave everyone we've met here. I am so excited to see you all when I get home though!

Xoxo