Miscellaneous Photos

Below is a collection of photos that didn't really fit anywhere else, but I thought you might enjoy.

Here is a picture of our bus.  It was always crowded and the driving was crazy, but it got us where we needed to be.

Here is our bus driver -- Abas.  He's smiling because he convinced one of the girls to buy him a pair of shoes.

One of things we take for granted in America, is flushing toilets.  This trip I learned to use squatty potties.  The locals thought we were crazy when Elisa set up her camera on automatic and took our picture in front of one at a gas station stop.  The second picture is from one of the schools we visited.

Nothing is easy in Uganda and doing laundry is no exception.  The children at Canaan's learn to do their own laundry.

It was laundry day at Ekisa when we visited.  They have the luxury of a clothesline. All over the countryside, laundry is more often just draped over bushes.  And of course during the rainy season, it may take days to get things dried.  Washing machines and dryers are only for the rich.

The children at Canaan's do not have showers or bath tubs either, so they wash themselves in communal buckets.  The older kids were behind a gate, but the little ones bathed in the courtyard.

And in the orphanage, you often see the older kids taking care of the younger ones.

Finally some of the views from the bus as we traveled from place to place.