Monday, February 25, 2008

Happy Birthday to me!

Greetings from the other side of 30!!! :-)  Ha! Ha!
 
I wanted to again say thank you to all of you who sent me birthday wishes.  It was a great weekend!  The first two days were more focused on Janeen's birthday and the last two were more about mine.  On Friday after work we drove down to Grootfontein (about 2 1/2 hrs away) and made pizza!  It is one of our favorite meals to make here and it tastes better made fresh too!  On Saturday we went to the private hospital where there is a nice lady who has a little day spa.  To treat ourselves we each got a massage and then got our legs waxed!  OUCH!!  Not a very fun thing to do for our birthdays, but the results were worth it...  :-)  Also on Saturday night we made my favorite food, Mexican!  We used a taco mix that was sent me to make shredded chicken.  Then we made our own sopapillas and guacamole... YUMMY!!!  After church on Sunday morning we made French toast and bacon.  Lauren's mom sent her real Canadian maple syrup that we enjoyed a lot!  The rest of Sunday was very relaxing as we just hung out, chatted and watched movies.  For lunch we were going to have sandwiches, but we had so many leftovers from the night before that we made some tortillas and had Mexican again!  It was just as good the second time as it was the first!  :-)  That evening we made our way a few miles out of town to the Kalkfontein Bed & Breakfast and farm.  That's where Mufasa lives. 
 
The B&B is a very nice place.  The rooms all open onto the pool, and in the middle of the night when you awaken you can often hear Mufasa roaring!  It's really cool!  Later that night, it was almost midnight and we decided to have more cake.  We didn't have forks or plates, but it didn't bother us!  We just ate African style with our hands!  Yummy!  Monday we did absolutely nothing productive but lay around and read.  There is no grass in Rundu, so we reveled in just sitting around outside on the lawn in the shade!  It was a perfectly relaxing day!  On Tuesday, my actual birthday, I had the pleasure of having breakfast outside with Mufasa!  Lauren and Janeen asked if they would move our table outside and if they could call Mufasa over to the fence.  They did both and it was a beautiful way to start being 30!  We lunged around after breakfast then went into town to meet up with Jessica and Linda (who live there) and Mick, who came up bringing our new team mates, David and Mckenzie (they're here for 3 months working with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children project {OVC}- they're from Montana).  After lunch, we lazily headed back to Rundu.  We unloaded the car, then headed to my favorite place for dinner... Kavango River Lodge.  Normally we would all order their beef steak, which is just about the best steak I have ever had in my entire life!  Unfortunately though, there were too many people booked in for dinner so they made us have a buffet.  It made me really sad, but I was promised we could go another day instead...
 
Overall, turning 30 wasn't too bad!  I loaded some pictures into the Facebook, just follow this link.  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27963&l=a1fc7&id=624739114.  I hope you enjoy them!
 
lots of love,
kimmie
 
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