Tuesday - What a treat!

One thing I forgot about yesterday was that we had a stowaway on the bus to the compound.  A small lizard had crawled into the space between the windows.

Sunday, I had a casual conversation I was having with one of the staff members I found out that he had rented a motorcycle to travel to the site for the weekend.  This interested me so I asked how much it cost to rent a motorcycle for the day in Uganda (see post from May 6 "Well We're Off").  The response was 15,000 which I quickly calculated to be $5 US dollars.  Ok. Is there any real discussion needed here? $5 to rent a bike for a day of riding? Seriously?  I knew we had at least 5 guys who would seriously be into riding bikes here.  Most of what we see are small bikes about 100cc which means they have a top speed of about 40 mph.  So we looked into seeing if we could get rentals for 6 of us.  Through one of the folks here we were able to arrange it.   We were able to ride to the compound from Tororo.  Arriving safely and without incident.  Then we found out, because of the heavy rain the night before, that the road would be very difficult to navigate with the bus or even the van ;-).  Well, wouldn't it be just like God to allow us to have motorcycles on this very day where we needed to get back to the village to work on the widows house.  So we used our bikes to get there and back again.

While we were at the building site we cleaned up all the remaining bricks. The masons had the walls about 90% done already.  Great progress.  Lindsay, our kid magnet, gathered a bunch of the kids together and was sharing the Gospel with them.  Then Destin did it too!  This is one of my favorite shots of the day.

Destin and Lindsay sharing the Gospel with the group of kids
who had come to see the house being built with the help of the Mzungu.

After that we did some clean up at the compound and then had a beautiful ride back to Tororo on our bikes.  This went mostly without incident.  The only real issue we had was a person just walking down the middle of the road in a very busy area and a couple of us came very close to him as we passed.   What a cool memory for the team to have - being able to see Africa this way.

Biking through Uganda.
That's Tororo Rock in the background which is just outside our hotel.