is this another planet?

After a semi-eventful trans-African journey (including an unexpected night in a very nice Ethiopian hotel), we have arrived in Burundi. And, well, we aren't in the desert anymore.

they messed up our flights...but at least this is a pretty sweet hotel 

free dinner...with fish

Burundi...definitely not the desert! It was green like this for the whole 2.5 hour drive 

and then we found this in our refrigerator!!! biggest avocado we've ever seen  (turns out there are huge avocado trees here...with avocados just laying around on the ground). All you can eat avocados, WHAT?!?!

and it wasn't even rotten inside

Guacamole and homemade tortillas (nope, didn't add meat or anything else)

Took a short hike to the top of the hill...its so GREEN!

In many ways, our experience here has been the opposite of the last two years. It rains every day. We are cold and wear our jackets and socks all the time, even inside, and sleep with four blankets on our bed. Our refrigerator is so full of fresh produce we don't know what to do with it all. Tab hasn't had that much work to do at the hospital- I guess the word got out that there was no surgeon here...so this might change soon.

Luke is still trying to fix everything broken.

Some other things are exactly the same, bad power, lack of resources, language struggles, and the ever present cultural misunderstandings. 

We are still looking forward to flying home soon. In two days we will have been gone for two years. It doesn't seem that long. Oh well, all things must come to an end.