January 12, 2008

Saturday, January 12th

Well, we've had trouble getting our blog entries done in Africa, which is why we've only had one. We thank Margie's daughter, Kimberly, for volunteering to do this now. Hopefully this will work!

We've had the most amazing last 3 days. It's almost impossible to describe. We have met so many wonderful people who are open and receptive to us. We've had meetings with the Mayor of Moshi, counselors which are area leaders, school headmasters and a newspaper journalist who was interested in our story. We have been so busy we can hardly breathe!

All of the trip has been amazing so far, but the highlight was definitely today! We went to a village called Uru West which sits at the base of the mountain. We took a van up a very bumpy, rocky, long path where we parked and then hiked up through the rain forest!!! We never expected this just as so many other wonderful things that have happened to us! At the top of the rain forest was the most amazing waterfall with rock formations that had people's faces in them. It was just too awesome for words. The waterfall is called an 'intake' because this is where they could tap into the source. It is frustrating to see all this beautiful clean water and know that they cannot get access to it. This was truly an inspiration for our project.

We then had a meeting with the leaders of the village and many men and women came to see what we were offering. The people were so open, friendly and loving, we were truly humbled and heart-filled.

The filming is going so well. We have so much wonderful footage, Jeremy and Matt will have a very tough time deciding and editing.

The trip so far has been beyond any expectations we had. Chris and Barb are even very surprised at the lack of mosquitos which everyone warned us about. And we're getting fat on homemade delicious food.

We are awestruck, excited and exhausted!