Finally, the update to the blog! Lots of photos and few words. If you double click a photo you get a better look, and its title is shown in the menu bar as well. Use the back button to return to the blog. Enjoy!
On our return to Kalene from Nyangombe, Becs took us up Kalene Hill. It didn't look much of a climb, but you know what they say about looks! It was great though, and the view was wonderful, although smoky so no good for photos. Rocks! Amazing rocks up there. It's where the hospital was originally built. Less mosquitos they reckon!
Two of Rebecca's greatest joys. A new leg for Bartholomew, and a real strip for her soccer team!
We were invited to stay with Ross and Mel, descendents of the hospital founders, for a weekend and visit her brother's Game Farm. We stayed in their guest "choti" which was really nice. Those grass rooves are amazing!
We enjoyed the two hour drive around the Game Farm spotting around 20 different types of antelope. Such graceful creatures. But look at the anthills on the poor pastures!
The Sports Outreach team ran a soccer tournament for about 100 kids one Saturday. Someone preached after lunch, and it was a great day. Kennedy and Albert, future World Cup stars, whose team won the tournament, against older players, were at our house three or four afternoons a week. Real characters!
We did enjoy meetings and braais (bbqs) with the Mission 'family' at the Retreat Centre. Chris loved her time with the nursery children, and we really got hooked on the fresh fruit we bought at our door. $3 a bunch of bananas, 60c ea for pawpaw or pineapple. Delicious!!
A grass fire got close to our house one night, close enough anyhow! We enjoyed celebrating Becs' birthday party with new friends. Becs got dressed in her new African dress (along with hairstyle) for the graduation that 
Chris made the banner for.
Chris made the banner for.
Saying goodbye to Rebecca and her friends was not easy. But it was even harder saying goodbye to Nellie, Kahaku's wife, as her husband died quite suddenly a few days before we left. Chris had spent a lot of time with him, as he was a long term TB patient, teaching him English and encouraging him with his drawings.
All aboard, take off, and our last view 
of Kalene Mission Hospital through the smokey air! Something of our hearts is still there. We loved our time there with Becs. Then we had to climb to 11,000 ft to get above the smoke level from the grass fires!
of Kalene Mission Hospital through the smokey air! Something of our hearts is still there. We loved our time there with Becs. Then we had to climb to 11,000 ft to get above the smoke level from the grass fires!
A look around Durban, World Cup Soccer stadium, lovely waterfront, and then the journey south along the coast to Kokstad.
Becs' friends Craig and Mariska were such wonderful hosts in Kokstad. We stayed in their beautiful guest "Rondi" and they showed us around and spoiled us rotten with their love. Thanks guys!
We have been fascinated by rocks in our travels. Where do they come from and how do they get here? Little ones on top of big ones. Layer upon layer. So majestic.
In and around Johannesburg, interesting signs and beautiful scenery gave way to tear-jerking history at Constitution Hill, prison for Ghandi, the Mandelas, and other apartheid opposers.
It was great to visit Perth for the first time, catch up with a long lost rel, and be treated to the tastes and sounds of the Pacific again at a luau at the YWAM Base on the night before we left.
