First full week done, with a little lion taming

The last three days have been up and down.  Wednesday she officially came to stay with us, having our first night of sleeping together.  We went to her house to pick her up and go have a party at McDonalds with her house mothers and sisters. It was a great time for Sarah and I, hearing stories and memories of her from her "family".  Getting to know a little bit about them all.  Yet so emotional on all sides knowing she may never see her "sisters" or "mommies" again, yet she is gaining a forever family.

Thursday we stayed pretty busy.  We went to Lion Park for the afternoon.  We were able to pet lion cubs, feed ostriches, and feed a giraffe.  Sarah wasn't going to when she saw that tongue, but I convinced her she really needed too.

After that, we took a little safari ride through their park.  Seeing, bucks(antelope), zebra, wildabeast, cheetah, and lions.  We opted for the guided one instead of the self driving.  I'm glad we did.  We were able to learn quite a bit about these animals that we never knew.

  This lion here, was the lion featured in the movie White Lion.  They told us instead of paying him for his role, they decided to give him six women😳.  Before he came along this lion below was with the six women.

Well, they said the women would beat on him, and he would beg the care takers to get him out of there. So they took Nicholus, the lion, and moved him to another place with only three women.  Still sounds like too many to me😊

Friday we decided not to do anything, but stay at the house and lounge, swim, and play games.  We were able to talk to our family back home three times during the day since the kids had no school. We were able to make some new friends from Uganda while we have been here too.

We also decided, that today was probably the best day we (Sarah) has had. We might have started learning how to tame some of our own lions, after visiting Lion Park.

A big thank you to all who are up lifting us in prayer.  A big thank you to all who have brought meals to our kiddos at home.  But, maybe not a big thank you to those who are cooking meals better than we do when we are home.  JK😛

 The kids said that was one perk of us being gone. 

The quote "these meals are amazing"

And a big thank you to Mike.  To whom I left an entire softball team to coach while I'm gone.

Rock on

J