January 20, 2008

• Africa

  I’ve got my days and nights mixed up.  My body still thinks it’s Nigeria time.  Here are some of the pictures:
  
  This is the gate that we entered when we went to the Missionaries house.  There is a 24 hour guard person at the house.  The stone fence was around the entire property (as high as this gate), with barb wire at the top.  There were bars on on the window.
  
  These were some of the children we encountered before the Muslim leader spoke to them and they all ran in fear.
  
  This was the market place.  You negotiated everything.
  
  More of the market place. I had to be really careful to take pictures.  I took the picture from the van I was in.  The Muslems get really upset if they see a camera.  (One of the guys got caught and a Muslem spoke very angerily to him.)
  
  On the road to Yancar.
  
  Alicia in front of one the cave systems that Nigerians used to hide from Slave Traders.
  
  A group of elephants we encountered on our safari
  
  Alicia feeding a Baboon.
  We stayed at a place where we had to lock our doors and window or the Baboons would come in and take our things.  We opened our door in the morning and had 2 rushing Baboons and a few warthogs trying to get into our room. 
  
  Alicia loved to hold the babies.  The Nigerian babies didn’t cry much.  They were strapped to the mothers back.
  
  The below pictures are from the Children’s Conference:
  

  
  This is Pastor Israel (on the right), a Children’s Pastor & now my good friend. 
  
  This is Alicia & I in our Nigerian clothes.  The clothes are so very comfortable.

  More to come.
  

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