Adele in Nairobi, Adventurous.

HeLLo!!!
I am doing very very well! I am having a blast! Even have a tan i might add... no, no not to rub it in.. but..;) Well anyways... i left off last coming from Rwanda. So we went to the Sse Sse islands! We stayed at this dutch guys camping grounds and had a blast (100 bucks for everything)! The water was murky... but the sand was the whitest sand i have seen in all my life anywhere! Which i have to say needs to be white to compare to so many other beaches... So we basically spent a day getting there we were so wiped 9:30 am to 9:30 pm.. I don't know what i was thinking when i thought about how long it would take you know.. just take a ferry. uhmm yeah their ferries here are sooooo slow lol me and Mel had a good laugh over it all. We spent our days frolicking in the water tanning till we burned (sorry mom) listening to our ipods, eating and drinking. That is pretty much it. You basically lay around like a tub and do nothing. Although we played volley ball and sweat like pigs.. haha.. we stayed for 3 days, 4 nights. Met really neat ppl from the States, Barcelona, and England. Sat around the fire. Ok, then we headed on to Kampala, Uganda with 2 other travelers. We stayed a night met up with some of Mel's friends and hung out. Then we went the next day to Nairobi, Kenya! I love it here! So we came it took us 15 hours!! 3:30pm to 7:00 am! CRAZY! Ok then our window was broken on the bus, i was freeeezzing all night!! All the Africans were gesturing! hehe.. So we went to church the next day.. which is inside of a movie theater! It was full of music so loud i thought my ears were bleeding! Let me tell you the preaching did not get any quieter! Pastor Craig you would have loved it! (PS they did the hankie dance!!!! I love it) They wave their hankies in the air and don't care! You'd laugh, it's a good time.) So we were really in pain (our ears that is) so we decided to leave the service... not a good idear. We were in the very front actually separated from the rest of the congregation! Awkwardness lol.. So we were leaving and an usher said that 'mama' wanted to talk to us! We were like what?!!?! She was the preacher, teacher, singer, hardcore lady! We were ushered to her office and we waited... So she finally came and she said 'God told me when i saw you that you needed to be looked after'. So she payed for our lunch and we didn't go with her she sent one of her ushers to come with us (Ken is his name). We had fun... but we were so wiped from our travels.. Later that night in our hostel we met this cool guy named Andrew who is from England and teaching in schools and so on... very fun and passionate! Mel and I have been chilling with him with most of our free time. You'd all love him...Ok.. thing is about this lady Pastor Lucy is that she and her husband are heading up 250 churches across the coast. they have many orphanages. youth ministries!!! Oh and I forgot one thing, her husband is running for president over Kenya!! Talk about that. Ok so the next day we went to church again ( they have 2- 3 services each day, 7 days a week, and like 1 or 2 crusades a week). Sweet easter service! So much energy the people are so passionate! They have moved me to seek God more seriously and have also been an encouragement to me! What a wonderful (non fattening) easter. So then we were taken for lunch again. We spent the whole day with Ken and laughed sooooo hard its not even funny! He is crazy. Then we waited a long while to meet with Pastor Lucy. She came in and left. that was it... but we got to see her sons ministry! She had only said he did music for youth and i was like wow ok, thats neat. So we walk in and there are like 20 people in white suits! Serious suits! With top hats i might add. Then they told us that they are an R&B band! They rap, they have 3 cd's, they have music videos they travel all over Africa, they are on the radio always... so they proceeded to show us their videos and i tell you they are tight! I COULDN'T believe it. They were so insane! My jaw dropped! Seriously i was amazed! They travel and do skits, dances, preaching and all for youth! They are all 18-27 single.. blah blah, serious about God... Victoria! you need to come and meet up with these people. So anyways. We are getting copies of their stuff very excited. Love it here, we will be moving on sooner than later to the coast! Life is exciting, and God always makes a way! Thank you all for reading this! I hope you are all well and safe! Also that this is not boring you.. tehe, I do hope to hear from you.
Much love - Adele xo

hey this is the last of them all.

These are our artsy fartsy pics... this is right before i sacked that creeper! Reflection.... artsy again.. this restaraunt was great for sweet pics... a skinny lil patio with the sun set and all wow good burger too! Yummy
I think she was trying to hide. Funny girl
This is what you call shopping in Uganda!! Wahoo found the best deal ever. Got a really cute dress for like $1.00, score.
This is us peacing out! Those are our back packs! Love you all! - post a comment!

7th batch of pics, hope you like em.

Me, at Hotel Des Mille Collines! Aka. Hotel Rwanda! (the movie)Honestly nothing but rich snobs there! Yick, we went and left! Everything was soooo expensive! Crazy people.
This is Rwanda! Rolling hills filled with life.. many people in a small area! Beautiful.. so many times we would be like wow that is so beautiful! Cool place I must say.
This is an open mass burial grave. You know at the museum is where they are burying everyone.
Uhmm.. there was no soap but I ended up having some in my bag so we had to balance it on my purse and was our hands at the same time... we were gutting ourselves laughing.. people kept on walking in and laughing, or else super embarrassed they thought they were interrupting something! Uhh good times. Crazy Canadians I tell you.

The 6th batch.. this line is gettin old now

Hey, this is a fractions of the names of those past who have been able to be buried at the memorial museum of Kigali, Rwanda! It is so sad. The Museum was decorated like insanely beautifully! WOW.. and you know we just add to the beauty of it all.. Te he joking.
Hey if you figure what this is supposed to be let me know.
BEAUTIFUL.. i know.. wow right?!
A Bench of ivy for you to sit and ponder the loss of Rwanda. Very intense.

The 6th batch.. this line is gettin old now

aHey, this is a fractions of the names of those past who have been able to be buried at the memorial museum of Kigali, Rwanda! It is so sad. The Museum was decorated like insanely beautifully! WOW.. and you know we just add to the beauty of it all.. Te he joking.
Hey if you figure what this is supposed to be let me know.
BEAUTIFUL.. i know.. wow right?!
A Bench of ivy for you to sit and ponder the loss of Rwanda. Very intense.

The 5th batch..

Gorgeous darling, gorgeous.

Melanie Orr this is.. her blog is http://melanieorr.blogspot.com Sweet arm.. i know
This is my super artsy pic.. she says i should go to photography school with her.. lol
Mahollow - she is a beaut

The 4th batch o' pics

I know I am a poser. Hey you don't have to tell me twice.
Don't even go for a third time!
Or a forth.. I would like to think this isn't a pose
I swear I didn't know she was taking this!

The 4th batch o' pics

Bunch of pics 3

This chick we met she was cool, cool dreds... name is Carla! She is unique... 19 and traveling all by herself! Crazy.At the Chez Venant.. snacks and drinks place. Talking uncontrolably
LAUGHING UNCONTROLABLY!! Seriously..hanging out with Mel and (the new gurl, Carla)
That's me if you didn't know
You know just strolling down the isle.. at Kigali Memorial Museum

2nd Batch of Pics

My bestest buddy ever- SMELLY (Mel) We are traveling together! Mel and I were taking pics for this rope climbing coarse and goofed off.. shhh don't tell.
I was doing the video taping for the coarse lol, very nice harnesses they wear.. awkward.
I got to cut two of the interns this is Katie and we had much fun doing her hair! FuNky!
Mel really wanted to catch some shut eye! YEAH RIGHT! She was no where near shut eye!

The beginning pics

In Comox Airport, ready for my 4 airplane long trip! (by myself) how exciting.In the Nairobi Airport, sat here for 2 hours watching ppl, how exciting!!
In the car! Arrived and chatting for 6 hours to Mbarara. Happy but tired..
THE EQUATOR!! Crazy crazy!

First Entry

Hello all!
Write a blog, write a blog.. hmmm what to say to you. I am loving my trip. Being alone traveling over to Uganda was not the most fun thing I’ve ever done! I met a few people had some light conversation, and some intense conversations with a guy who put Christianity in a box, he knew ‘everything’. God help me, it was impossible to get through, but I tried anyways. I read a lot on the 4 plane long trip. When I got to Entebbe I saw Mel after like walking 1 km out of the airport that was ‘under construction’ seeing each other but being stuck behind a grandma with a pusher for about 100 feet and only running to see Mel at about 10 feet away! That was painfully unwanted patience. We talked for 6 hours on the way to Canada house. So good to see her! By the way Mel is doing wonderfully well lol, she is a blast! I love the creativity that Mel and I are seeing everywhere. We are catching moments of beauty everywhere we go. It’s hard to explain what I see here. I see people going through life, through emotions they may never feel again or have felt and are trying to wash away. I have seen people who have gone through the Genocide in Rwanda. Their faces say a lot. You may think you would see pain and anger written on their faces but above all we see love. Love was very strong in Rwanda. Our trip there was full of fun! We met many sweet travelers, some a little different than others… to say the least. Then we met locals and they shared their stories on what life was like during the genocide what the consequences were and so on. How about the many orphans that were the out come of humans vulgar actions? Or how about the many women who were raped and now are carrying Aids because of a thoughtless, wait not a thoughtless act it was planned rape (they would get lessons on how to do this) just so they could be better than and make themselves into the ‘supreme beings’ of Rwanda. One hundred days, one million people dead. Neighbors turning on neighbors, family on family, husbands to wives, wives to husbands. The ripping of love and the daggers of pain in seeing your lost ones taken before your eyes over repeated actions of savage outbreaks of a torn government. I have experienced many emotions in Rwanda. They are good though. I have learned a lot. We did not go any further than the Memorial Museum. We had opportunity to go and see dead mutilated bodies that were kept ‘well’ by putting lime on the bodies, many people killed within a school left in the exact position of death in 1994. Sick, I am not into seeing that unless I am in genocide myself. Yick. Ok. This all sounds intense it is but we also have been going out for dinner, walking, talking, chill axin. We have laughed till our stomachs hurt! We are enjoying each others’ company. We have been sharing our thoughts out loud and have had many good things come out of them. Instead of tearing ourselves down we are building each other up… Okay, now for a storey. One night we went out for dinner at about 6:30 we wanted to catch a Boda Boda to our hostel and these 2 guys we were obviously drinking came up and were just ‘hanging around’.. one was picking my purse *trying to steal from a mzungu*, urg! So I turned and yelled, ‘excuse em moi!!!’ *they speak French there* I pushed his shoulder and let me tell you, he moved! What nerve (he didn’t get a thing, my bag is practically bullet proof hehe). Then the other guy was like ‘WOW, madam very good!!’ Then he continues, ‘I love you, I love you mzungu’ (white woman). I turned and said, ‘NO you don’t’ and I swung my leg over the Boda Boda (which is a motorbike) and I sacked him with my foot *then he keeled over*! Then my driver took off (with me). (Guess God really is looking out for me) hehe. That was an awkward thrill! (all you mill guys don’t need to worry about me! You know I can hold my own. Keep on working hard boyz) Anyways, we are safe and these guys are pathetic, good thing I am strong from all that work at the mill Dad! At the moment Mel and I are at Canada house picking pics for the blog and writing down our thoughts for you! We are continuing onto the Sse Sse Islands tomorrow morning. Obviously for some sunnage and campidge. There are 84 islands, I must say it will be hard to pick one. So I will update as soon as possible! I love you all, I hope all is well. Let me know your thoughts and comments! Much love – Adele

A New Adventure!

HELLO EVERYONE!!

Today is the day before I go. I am ecstatic! Geeze how fast it is one trip to the next. Come back work like a dog and then take your finger off the pause button and continue...I feel very excited.. this trip isn't taking as much preparing as the last. It feels good, not so hard to pack. I am getting the hang of it more easily now. I love traveling, the feeling you get when you arrive, meeting people, seeing things that blow your mind, feeling adventurous, and even the wrapping up of the whole trip. Sharing memories even before you are back home! Exciting and moving is what i am praying this trip will be. This is going to be a blast. Mel and I are going to go all out in all we do. We hope to tent and not get rained on. To meet people with crazy characteristics that are so beautiful and encouraging. To see animals of all types that I've never seen. We hope for new things that make us think out of the ordinary. Yet we know a few basics of what the trip holds.. we never will know what this trip holds till it unfolds before us in these next 2 and a half months! That/this is so neat, i can't wait to see it all happen and blend so creatively .. My back pack is ready, i have my thermarest and a sheet for sleeping, some clothes for all occasions and i have my international driving licence man o man i am ready for adventure. So I hope all these entries encourage, excite, and entertain your lives! Come and join this adventure into Uganda Africa, and Europe! If you have questions ask, and if you have comments, comment! I will reply!! :)

- my love to you all - Adele

PICS

This is what i did for most of one day, just layed in a hammok and took pics... i love zoom i must say.

All the flowers were stunning!! Seriously, everywhere you look was like BAMB! Soi i must say.
Uh yeah, this thai lady took this picture and then after she was like 'please can i take picture with you' so now she has a pic with 2 whities... lol hope it turned out.

Hey.. uh this is a big bird if I've ever seen! This zoo was full of sweet animals.
THIS IS A CROCK! it was sleeping the whole time.

So beautiful this is just as you're walking in the zoo! You are seeing that these flowers just grow off of the tree! Insane i tell you.

The beautiful Stephanie!! Our last day in Chiang Mai

This is our first place we stayed at... Name is Tohko Beach WOW amazing! Sleeping cheap as dirt! Beautiful, one restaurant one bar and then sleeping... 3 bucks to get into town or you can hike across the island.. no cars on this island!! Beautiful.

Uhmm... just an artsy pictcha, i just love it. This pic reminds me of how relaxed and i donno.