My cousins are cooler than your cousins

Jambo!

I'm writing from my cousins' house in Arusha, Tanzania.
Our visit with them has been excellent.

We arrive after travelling for almost 24 hours from zanzibar (overnight ferry and a 9 hour bus ride).
right now they live in "the city", but they purchased land on the base of mt. meru and have begun construction on a new home.

"Construction' here looks a lot different than home.
Most notably, there were no machines.

Just lots of people with shovels, wheelbarrows and no shoes.

After hanging with the fam for a couple of days, we headed to a 2 day safari in Lake Manyara national park and the ngorogoro crater. Both were pretty amazing.
Today we saw a pride of lions eating a wildebeast (don't worry, it deserved it).

Tomorrow we'll head a little east to Moshi for shabbat before we make our way back through kenya on route to Uganda.

Everyone in the house is sleeping and the keyboard makes lots of noise, so I think that I"ll sign off here.

Kwa Heri