Party!

I am on a swing at my friend's party.  Their names are Sam and Matt.  The swing swung over a fire!  I got to wear another friend's motorcycle hat!  It was a fun party because I got to drink a whole bottle of Coke.  Sam grows pineapples at his house and we got to bring one home.  We were surprised to learn that it took 3 1/2 years for the pineapple to grow!  That's as old as Wesley!

We went to another party at some friends' house.  It was fun.  I got to play a game that you had to be over 8, even though I am 6.  It was a game on the trampoline.  We hope we get to sleep at their house someday.  Their names are Eric and Bonita.

The Coopers in Uganda

 These guys were dancing at our hotel in Uganda.  I liked their music and I liked watching them dance.

The American Festival

On the 4th of July, the first place we went was the dunking place.  We had to throw a ball at a target and if we got the target then the person that was sitting on the board would get dunked.  We went to the US Embassy 4th of July Party; we had to give them our passports in order to go.  I almost go the guy 3 times but I didn't.  We met my friend and my dad's friend, Tom Allen, and then we went to the bounce house.  Then we got some food and some Fiesta...I bet you don't know what Fiesta is.  (It is purple Fanta, Fanta is only orange soda in the US but it is every flavor in Rwanda).  Then we played volleyball with balloons and it was so fun.  They had little treasures in the hats on the tables, so we looked around on all the tables and got balloons, some rubber duckies, a fan, and some plastic airplanes.  I watched a little Looney Tunes but then I stopped because it was a little too scary.  I found my parents and then we started to walk and then I said, "the fireworks are coming on soon!"  So we watched a video of the fireworks that everyone at US Embassies around the world watched for 4th of July.  We weren't allowed to take pictures because it was the embassy.  We weren't even allowed to bring phones or cameras into the party!  the end!

Rwandan Safari

The other day we went on a safari day!  First we saw a big elephant!  But we couldn't get a good picture because he was hiding.  Then we saw a very sick hippo laying in some flowers in a lake.   We saw lots of hippos.   Hippos sometimes look like rocks in a pond and can be hard to see at first, but then we learned how to see them and we saw them everywhere.  We saw babies and adults.  We saw a giraffe and got out of the car get a better look and was right in front of me!  The giraffe was looking straight at me!!  I was kind of afraid that a buffalos would charge us because our guide told us it has happened before.  There were a lot of zebras everywhere!  They were so cool.  I really wanted to see an aardvark but we only saw an aardvark hole, which is his house or maybe a python lives in it, because sometimes pythons live in aardvark holes after they move out.  Aardvarks live near termite hills and we saw millions of termite hills.  Also aardvarks are nocturnal so they are pretty hard to see on safaris but our guide saw one once in 13 years.  We saw lots of beautiful birds.  We also saw crocodiles in the water...they are very hard to see because they like the water because it is so hot and sunny but we saw a lot of them.  The guide said that sometimes they pull the fisherman in!  There were tons of impalas and things that Wesley thought were reindeers.  It was really bumpy and curvy on the road.  I love safaris!  And I think my Uncle Mark would really like a safari because he really likes animals.

This is the aardvark hole we saw that might have a python living in it!

Bye Bye Jumpie

Yesterday we found a gecko in our house and we were able to catch him!  He was the best.  He was a baby and was just starting to grow a tail.  I loved him.  He escaped a bunch of times but I always caught him.  My friend Connor and I made him a cool house out of blocks and Magna Tiles.  I gave him food ( a dead wasp, ants), water, toys, a hideout and a house.  He crawled up my arms and my neck and my shoulder.  But tonight he escaped when I wasn't home and I think he was trying to find me.  But we looked everywhere and we can't find him.  I miss him and hope he is having fun.

Dr. Monkey

He is the funniest monkey I've ever seen.  In fact, he was my first monkey I ever saw.  I saw him on the top of a hill.  He was just so funny.  I just can't wait to see him again.

Fun Friends

These are our neighbors.  They came to our house to play.  It started with 2 kids and then it was like 15 kids in 1 family.  1+ 9 = 10.

Some of the kids have not seen lots of toys so they had fun.  They also had never seen so many pencils and markers and pieces of paper.  Even though they don't have hot wheels at home, they gave  all of them back to us.

This is me and Mike.  He is my best friend here.  He is so cool because he can do back handsprings, flips, and walk on his hands.  He is so nice.  He helped me to walk on my hands.  He speaks some good English because he can understand me when I say, "How are you?"  He asked me things in English and I answered him in Kinyarwanda with "Yego" which means "yes" like 8000 million times.  I also said "ni meza" which means "I'm fine."  "How are you" is "amakuru".  He is also really good at soccer and he has a soccer jersey on!  I hope he comes over again.

This is Dioni (the little one) and Umanse.  Dioni is 4 and she is the daughter our Celeste, our gate guy.  She is 4.  She has an ouchie on her left thumb with a different-looking bandaid which was just tied on her thumb and you could see her blood.  Wesley says that Umanse has a cute voice.