Boats, War Eagle, Rain and Things Get a Little Insane

What a day. So we started off with our morning meeting. Then a large part of us went off to an orphange in a town called Bethany, however, getting there was a little different than I expected. So we were to take a bus to the shore of Lake Victoria and then take a boat the rest of the way. Most of us were thinking a ferry style boat and someone even asked if we were going to drive the bus on the boat....um no. This boat kind of reminded me of a large wooden canoe with a small motor and it launched from a dock that really felt like Africa. We asked if people swam in the water and the comment back was, "Only in and emergency." When we got there we also saw ant hills as high as people, probably something best to stay away from.

The orphange was great. The kids were wonderful. There was a group there from Auburn University too. Pam, for your sake I made a video of them doing the "War Eagle" cheer and I guess they taught it to some of the kids too. It was a pretty powerful trip. It was a place of joy and happiness and the kids have a singing troop that performed for us too.

IWe had a huge 30 minute rain shower and it caused some major chaos at the field. Rivers and lakes were formed in the field. We had a 2 ton LED video wall come crashing down into the spectator area on the field and some general flooding. No one was injured. We really need for it not to rain on Friday or Saturday. I so trust the people on this trip and have no doubt by Friday things will be right. They think there's a chance it can still work and there are fences being put in place to protect from it happening again.