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| We're just loving it! Here are a few pictures from our days exploring Boston with Daniel and Tanya. Boston Harbour: 
Lunch at UNO'S 
Bird's eye view of Boston from the Prudential Tower 
Skydiving gone bad? 
Plum Island 
Paul Revere's House 
Downtown church 
Lynch Park on the ocean. Just a few minutes from Daniel and Tanya's house 
Some guy named George on a horse 
Cannoli's - a new experience for us, but one to be repeated 
We may get mango and pineapple but we sure don't get these 
Sweet juicy Honey Crisp Apples. 
In 10 minutes we'll be starting our drive west (as soon as Kristen is done packing...) See you soon. | | |
| Ryan had a good trip to Madagascar and successfully acquired a Malagasy CPL. Finding themselves with a free afternoon, he and another pilot visited the Lemur Park where they greeted King Julian of I-Like-To-Move-It-Move-It fame.
Now Ryan is back into the busy swing of things here in Juba. Officially, he flies on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. In reality, he sometimes ends up flying on other days, too. What is supposed to happen is that the one (soon to be two) other pilot with a Malagasy license comes up from Nairobi to fly from Tuesday through Thursday so Ryan can work in the office coordinating and scheduling flights. But, things come up and it doesn't always work the way it is supposed to! Meanwhile, I continue to wade through finances and HR stuff. I have also started doing some ESL with our Sudanese staff. We are really looking forward to being up here when the Hageneiers (the other Juba-based pilot and his family, currently on home assignment) are back--it will be much less hectic! Not to mention that we enjoy their company, too.
And here is a rather funky, and slightly blurry, panorama which at least gives you an idea of what the inside of our house looks like! Doing a panorama inside a rectangular room produces interesting angles in the picture. Sprawled out on the living room floor is a MAF dog named Ketchup who has wormed his way into our hearts, in spite of his high-pitched howling at night.
We have almost exactly a month before we leave for our home assignment. We're counting down the days until we can be with our family and friends in North America, but still feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the work that needs to be done before we go!
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| Several of you have asked for pictures of our house, or have asked what it is like living in a metal house in Juba. No, it's not like living in an oven--although this is the cool season, so maybe you should ask again when we're back in January (after spending December in Winnipeg!). There are ceiling fans in every room which really make a difference to keep temps down. When the generator is on (or in the rare event of Juba town power!) we can use the air conditioning in the bedroom. We're going to take a panorama of the inside of the house, but for now these are the pictures that I have. 
Ryan went to Madagascar for a week to convert his license so he can fly a Madagascar-registered plane that we have in Juba, and of course he took our camera with him--so we'll get more house pics when he returns! And we'll probably have some interesting Madagascar photos to post as well. He is enjoying Madagascar and yesterday he said they were going to a lemur park. Meanwhile in Juba, I had quite a surprise yesterday! I went to visit the Ministry of Regional Cooperation to deliver a letter. Everybody was very helpful, and I was finally ushered into the office of the person who could help me--and there was Kila, a friend of ours from high school! I did not expect to walk into a government office in Juba to be greeted with "Kristen!" and a big hug!! What a small world. | | |
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