Enjoy the beauty and the crazy folks!!

It has been an interesting trip.  Every day has been so much greater than the day before it.  A couple of days ago we went to Victoria Falls.  We had been there before to see the lunar rainbow but this trip was during the day so we could see the beauty of the falls better.  We have so many people that for almost every day trip that we have had to have two groups go because there was not enough room in Khaki Jackie.  I happened to be in the first group that was able to go to the falls.  We entered the falls and stopped at the highest point.  We were all amazed at how beautiful the falls were.  We continued walking a little further.  Finally I rented a rain poncho.  (I had my backpack on because I had things to trade with the venders when we got finished in the falls.)  They had me keep my backpack on and then put the green poncho on over the backpack.   I looked like a turtle.  (There are pictures on someone’s camera to document this and hopefully it will be posted on Facebook when we get home.)  We continued down to the falls.  We walked over the bridge.  I experienced the most phenomenial feeling.    I was walking through a heavy mist of water and was not able to see very far across the bridge so I had no idea how much longer you will be able to walk before you run out of bridge.  It is completely undescribeable to walk over this bridge that is over the fallen water from the Zambezi River.  If you ever have the opportunity to do it you MUST!!!  When I got back to the beginning of the bridge my capris and legs were wet but the turtle poncho worked well.

I then walked out to the shopping stalls.  This is also an interesting experience.  I feel like they realize that they will overwhelm us and they think that it will confuse us so we will spend more money at their stall.  Instead all they do is make us angry.  I laughed when I heard Lauren say “If you talk to me and bother me I will go on to the next stall.  Just don’t talk!  Just shhhhhh!!”  They were quiet for about three seconds before they started to bother her again.  But I skipped a couple of stalls and then there was a guy who said, “Madame, come look here.  I will not pressure you to buy anything.  I will just let you look.”  This happened at six stalls in a row.  I did purchase some things at these stalls and traded all of the things that I brought (2 pairs of shoes, 2 rain ponchos, 2 jumbo packs of batteries, a gallon size Ziploc bag full of free pens, and 2 sheets of rubber hair bands).  Several of the guys working were very upset when they found out that I had nothing else to trade.  They wanted pens and batteries very badly.  So if you come later you need to bring SEVERAL of these!!  But just realize that the shopkeepers are so exhausting that I could only handle shopping for one hour at a time. 

I would like to say Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers in our lives.  We love you and thank you for the wonderful job that you have done.

Much love to all!  See you soon!
Naiveen