Udzungwa

Hahaha, for the longest time I couldn't get pictures to post of my blog. I've been uploading them to Picasa but couldn't connect them here. Today I finally realized it is because pop ups were blocked....yeah, obviously technology isn't my thing! So this afternoon I'll overwhelm all the people that receive an email when I post by trying to get all the pictures uploaded. For Thanksgiving some friends and I went to Udzungwa National Park to hike and then Dar es Salaam. The idea was to stay busy so we wouldn't miss our families so much. For the most part I think it worked. The heat and sunshine were so different from Thanksgiving in Iowa that it felt more like a summer trip. Hiking was fun, although as this is Tanzania things aren't quite as simple as going to hike in a park at home. But overall the day was awesome. For awhile I thought I may pass out and die but my friend Tisho carried my bag and Morgan and Tisho kept encouraging me so I didn't just take a seat and wait for them to hike back to me. I'm glad they did or I would have missed out on seeing the waterfall up close and swimming....maybe next time I should work out or something before climbing/hiking! Our 'Thanksgiving' meal ended up being Friday. We found an amazing place to eat after hiking. Saturday we crossed back through Morogoro on our way to Dar es Salaam. We spent one night there. Tisho and I tried to show Morgan, Michael and Stephanie around in a day. We weren't the best tour guides ever since neither one of us likes Dar and neither one of us has spent much time there. But we saw a few fun things and even went to see a movie. It was my first time at the movie theater in Tanzania. It was really fun.
Tisho and I were back in Dar a few weeks ago and tried to see another movie. This time we weren't as fortunate. After sitting in the theater for an hour watching ads and previews someone came to tell us the movie was broken and couldn't be fixed. We were bummed. Guess I'll have to think about taking the 3 hour bus ride to Dar in the future just to watch a movie. It would stink to make the trip and then have the movie not work again!