Visitors!

Uncle Jim and Aunt Lucile stopped in for a visit on their way to their winter hang out.  

As always the kids (and we) are excited to see them. They always pick up fun kid activities during their many travels and share them with the kids. 

There are rulers, foam fingers, sticker books, and a superhero comic book about a plumber. An eclectic mix of goodies!

  

Grocery shopping

This is what a posh produce market looks like in Equatorial Guinea.  You buy your produce separately from all your other groceries.

These are some sizable leeks!
Plantains and papayas are plentiful.

  Those bottles are old liquor bottles, filled with “ground nuts” which are locally roasted peanuts.  Named ground nuts because they grow in the ground.  Quite tasty, although one does need to watch out for rocks.
In a similar vein, “ground beef” is pidgin for certain varieties of bush meat – rats and hyrax (rodents of unusual size) that can be purchased from the not-so-posh local vendors.  Imagine a roadside stand with a bunch of rats hanging by their tails.

Family Fun Run

So Saturday was not only Halloween but also a race day in our house. It was raining really hard up until about an hour before the race so the trails were “a little wet”.  

The kids both ran in the kids race that was scheduled to be 1 mile but was cut short due to water on the course that was up past Colin’s chest. They both had a great run and are looking forward to their next. 

Sarah was a trooper and ran a 5km race through the muddy and wet course. She is awesome!