Out & About and visit from Mamie

I'm still way behind on the blog and we've been away many a weekend, so I apologize for the lack of updates.

Some of our recent activities:
We had Ethiopian Christmas dinner at an Ethiopian friend's place on Jan. 7th;

Gwendolyne lost a tooth;

We went out to dinner at a traditional Ethiopian place, Fasika, and my girls got all dressed up for it;

We hiked to the top of an extinct volcano, Mt. Zuquala, and visited its crater lake and two churches;

We spent a weekend hiking and horseback riding in the Bale Mountains;

Patricia's mother arrived from France two Sundays ago, and we all visited Lake Langano again this past weekend.

Next week a group comes into town from Washington to help us implement the bar-coded pouch tracking system. I'm stressing a bit because I'm in charge of the whole project. I'll let you know how it goes!