The East girls around the christmas tree
We kind of used the tree branches to tie on some of the christmas ornaments like this santa
A tyra banks angel!
Josh is a warrior for Jesus. They have several different religious print fabric. A friend of mine has a different one for everyday of the week.
Christmas cookies
Gourmet magazine worthy
Christmas day at the bar around the corner!
Sante!
Adam and Josh. Love is all around
Cell phone service is really bad in the Extreme North. So this Phil character carried around a large portable desk phone waiting for the fam to call on christmas
Brad was a biking Santa
Could that be Santa I hear? Nope just Brad with a case of beer
Calzones
Sahel of Cameroon
5:30am day after christmas... not ready to safari just yet
paved roads up to the park
It was just a matter of where or when this was going to happen on the safari. Good thing we've got plenty of string
Tess, elyse and lee on the side of the road
Some weird plant. It looks like fruit but they're just filled with air. This was before we popped all of them like balloons.
flowers of balloon fruit
We made it to Waza Park, and this is the welcome center. just joking
Lisa
Some kind of antelope. We used our to buses to round the herd up.
Ben discovered his love of foulards
It. is. dry.
Bright red trees
The water hole
Left to right: Deanne, Lindsey, Melissa, Lisa, Gloria, Lee, Me, Ben, Tess, Fleurange, and Gabe. Elyse is taking the pic
This way to Chad. Just a bunch of elephant tracks
Mountains around Maroua are gorgeous
Another bus ride, we love our ipods
This was in the Adamawa, probably the last water we're going to see for a long time.
Houses in the North
Lee on the moto headed out for Rhumsiki
Parade of white people on motos with large helmets
Bikes are much more common in the Grand North. Also popular are Pharmacies on a Bike. I wish I had a picture but basically instead of hay, there's a big box of drugs on the back or front of the bike
We look and feel like bobble heads. Thats because they're actually snow mobile helmets made in Nigeria. Its the only kind of helmet they have here because they're the cheapest
Approaching Rhumsiki- lisa is a very talented photographer even when on a moto
The most famous rock formation of Rhumsiki
HOTEL!!
VACATION!
Lisa!
It got really cold at night so the pool was actually freezing (around 65 degrees), even during the day when the sun is extremely strong.
Moi
Elyse
Outside the crab sorcerer's house
Arranging the rocks and sticks in the crab's pot
I borrowed this picture from someone and I'm going to pass it off as my own
Crab in the pot
I don't want goats anymore, I now want a donkey.
we missed market day while we were at the pool
A view of Rhumsiki from one of the mountains/formations
Thats our hotel
The most famous rock of Rhumsiki. A kid in town told us that some American climbed it and parasailed off the top a couple years ago. He said it was a big spectacle. I can only imagine
On motos going through Ngoundere we ran into a funeral procession. It was a prince or someone of royalty. This picture doesn't do justice to the chaos
New Years Eve! Elyse, Ehab, Me, Lisa and Mike
Lisa and Dan
Lisa, birthday girl Fleurange and I
Picture with Adam
Lisa and I can't get a picture alone. Mike creeping in the background
Josh demonstrating the graffiti
And this was before we left. Lisa's carrot birthday cake
With candles on the side
I am a falafel master. And Joe's excited
