Lusaka

We just returned from a whirlwind trip to Lusaka. We had just arrived home from our camping trip on Sunday evening & were home on Monday before heading out again on Tues morning. Lusaka is about a 5 hour trip & even though the roads are pretty good most of the way, we went in a new Land Cruiser that is made for off - roading, so it had like, NO springs or shocks! With the help of our driver, Donald, We bounced all the way there & all the way back.
We arrived there about noon & found a nice restaurant for lunch. Then decided to go to a movie since they had English movies - we saw Rattatoille (sp?). It was pretty cute! We wanted to see another one as movies are less than $3 pp to see, but since we had already been sitting for 7 hours that day, decided to do a little shopping. We finished up shortly & with my exciting husband & daughter who wanted to do nothing else, we headed back to the guesthouse at 5:30.
We stayed at the Khaki & Dust guest house which is just a large house with about 6 guest rooms. Ours had a king bed (best bed in the last 6 weeks!) & a twin bed for Shelby. Shelby fell asleep around 6 & slept until 6 the next morning when we woke her. Vann & I watched TV for a little while & then promptly fell in bed around 8:30. I have never in my life slept as much as we're sleeping on this trip!!
We got up early the next morning as we had to drive the 20 minute drive to the American International School where Shelby was scheduled to take the PSAT Test. She finished a couple of hours later & felt good about the test. We had been running errands all over town while she was testing - meeting with the internet company to try to get something done & shopping for other things. When someone comes to Lusaka from Namwianga,, everyone gives them the list of what they need. Thankfully, our list was fairly short.
Before leaving town we ate lunch at an Irish Pub in the Monda Hill shopping center & Vann & Shelby got their last ice cream for a while! We arrived home to find that the internet has been off & on all day (we added a new electric line & some voltage meters) but on a lot more than off!! Maybe we're actually getting somewhere!!