NO INTERNET AT HOME YET!

O.K. Still no internet!

This blog thing is hard to do with no internet connection. I promise there will be content when that happens! For now I am going to be lazy and cut and paste the second e-mail that I sent out to some folks, this one mostly regarding the adventures of our cat Jackson! He is doing fine. I am trying to teach him how to be a true jungle cat, but the hawks that circle overhead, and these large crow/raven like birds freak him out a little. He does love the yard though!

Here is that e-mail…

oh yeah!

Jackson made it too! How did I forget that! When I picked him up for our layover in Nairobi he was a little freaked out, of course I picked him up in cargo (had to take a car there) in a concrete building with lots and lots of bars that looked like it was built to house elephants. A huge building with lots of caged cells and 40 watt bulbs, and nothing...I mean nothing, but Jackson in his little bitty crate in the middle (literally) of cell 53 something or other behind padlock and key. It was surreal to say the least! Leaving Kenya was a lot easier.

He did not want to get back in his cage the next morning! We had a quick hour flight though, and made it to our new home "relatively" quickly, with all 12 suitcases! They all arrived!

Needless to say Jackson is much happier now. He is fine and eating scrambled eggs with the rest of us each morning (a bag of cat food is 70 bucks here!).

Anyway...we love you all, and I will write something with a little more weight soon.

Eric

P.S. For those concerned...Ava's culture shock was due to, um...the culture. People's dress, babies on backs, another language, etc. She is doing well, and happy as a clam playing in the yard. I am sure that each day will be easier than the last.

…and I want to add something! After the ordeal that was the Nairobi Airport, once we landed in Rwanda, they just sent him out with our luggage on the carousel! I could see and hear him meowing going around and around as we were trying to pass through customs! No one asked for forms, documents, or anything! In Kenya, I might as well been trying to smuggle in any number of illegal products/substances with the hoops I had to jump through. Rwanda? Who cares! Who would want to bring a cat here?!!!