Happy Birthday to Clara!
We miss you and hope you have a great birthday.  How would you like to trade your nice home for this mud and thatch hut.  People actually live in these.  They are their homes.

Most people that live in the city come from a village somewhere.  The villages have homes like these.  This one is  about 4 km from Jinja in a beautiful valley that we went walking in one day last week.  It is surrounded by fields of corn and folks working in the field.  One Relief Society president in our district told me that she goes to the village once a week for 3 days to work in her garden.   When they are out of work they can live at the village for free and eat from the produce in the gardens.  It is often that we are told that someone is at the village and not available to talk to.

Eggs are available to purchase at the store in flats.  You tell the clerk how many you want then they bag them up as pictured.  We buy a flat of 30 and have to bring them home and jix them.  They have not been cleaned and even if they had we clean everything again.  Jix is a name for chlorax.

Chickens are hauled in the most unusual ways.  I want to get a picture of them hanging from bicycle handles but I haven't been fast enough getting the camera out.  They don't carry just a few, more like 15-20 tied upside down.

This was our first view of how pineapples grow.  These have a while to grow as they're quite tiny.  Most pineapples are grown further North from here.  They are trucked in most every day to be sold at the markets.

We couldn't resist having our picture taken with these beautiful vines with flowers hanging from the tree.  Sister Crayk is in the middle and Sister Scott who was visiting from Kampala on the right.  She is the mission secretary.

On our way home from Kampala last week we visited the Rain Forest Lodge. It was in a beautiful setting only 2 km off the main road through the forest.  We were the only guests there on a Monday afternoon.  We had royal treatment and a very lovely meal.

Do you have to be a "Tarzan" to use the restroom at the Rainforest Lodge?

Women's  restroom is named "Jane"  

He probably was hauling 30-40 Jerry cans.  Africans without running water use them to haul water.  They usually carry them on their head back home when they are full.    This could be several kilometers.  We have two jerry cans that we keep emergency water in.  We didn't haul them home full.  We brought them home and filled them with filter water from the kitchen sink.  We have many more luxuries than most here in Uganda.