Tales from Spring Break 2009!
Well, I actually went on a spring break trip this year - to Rwanda!
It was awesome!
I have now started the first chapter of the Beni Shower-a-holics Anonymous!
How much do you miss something when it is taken away from you? Apparently a lot!
So, first I flew to Goma, DRC and stayed with the folks at the Heal Africa guest house, Maji. The lake in Goma is beautiful and it keeps the town really cool! I loved it! Plus, the Heal Africa staff are really awesome!
Then the next day, Luke and I met up with Bruce, a pilot for AirServe (a non-profit humanitarian flight company), and walked across the border to Rwanda.
Little did we know, but April 7th is the Rwandan Genocide Memorial Day. So absolutely nothing was open or running!?!
So we walked to the one major hotel in Gisenyi - the Serena. Praise God they had coffee!!!!! And not just any coffee, but I had an iced coconut mocha!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!! I was in heaven and didn't want to move by that point - the good news was that I didn't have to move for 3 hours, because the first bus to Kigali wasn't until 2pm.
The ride to Kigali is amazing. We traveled through the Virunga mountain range and got to see all of Lake Kivu, plus coffee farms, and banana farms, and the valley - it was GORGEOUS! I just put my iPod on and enjoyed the ride.
We finally get to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda at about 7:30 at night and check into Hotel Okapi. What do you know, but a girl from Columbia, MO is working the front desk! I couldn't believe it! She is married to a Rwandan man and they are expecting their first child. It was totally cool!
We decide to go out to eat and the ever sweet Bruce treats Luke and I to a steak dinner! It was awesome! Unfortunately, Bruce was headed off to Egypt bright and early the next morning - so we'll have to repay him sometime in Goma.
Well, I actually went on a spring break trip this year - to Rwanda!
It was awesome!
I have now started the first chapter of the Beni Shower-a-holics Anonymous!
How much do you miss something when it is taken away from you? Apparently a lot!
So, first I flew to Goma, DRC and stayed with the folks at the Heal Africa guest house, Maji. The lake in Goma is beautiful and it keeps the town really cool! I loved it! Plus, the Heal Africa staff are really awesome!
Then the next day, Luke and I met up with Bruce, a pilot for AirServe (a non-profit humanitarian flight company), and walked across the border to Rwanda.
Little did we know, but April 7th is the Rwandan Genocide Memorial Day. So absolutely nothing was open or running!?!
So we walked to the one major hotel in Gisenyi - the Serena. Praise God they had coffee!!!!! And not just any coffee, but I had an iced coconut mocha!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!! I was in heaven and didn't want to move by that point - the good news was that I didn't have to move for 3 hours, because the first bus to Kigali wasn't until 2pm.
The ride to Kigali is amazing. We traveled through the Virunga mountain range and got to see all of Lake Kivu, plus coffee farms, and banana farms, and the valley - it was GORGEOUS! I just put my iPod on and enjoyed the ride.
We finally get to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda at about 7:30 at night and check into Hotel Okapi. What do you know, but a girl from Columbia, MO is working the front desk! I couldn't believe it! She is married to a Rwandan man and they are expecting their first child. It was totally cool!
We decide to go out to eat and the ever sweet Bruce treats Luke and I to a steak dinner! It was awesome! Unfortunately, Bruce was headed off to Egypt bright and early the next morning - so we'll have to repay him sometime in Goma.
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