Life is always a surprise in the Congo

No pictures today and you will be glad. But we need to remember yesterday's adventure. Hopefully it's not a usual day. We decided, thanks to Cathy Bigler who suggested this, to have pancakes for dinner. She told us that she had a hard time with food in Brazil until she started making pancakes. When nothing else tasted normal, she made pancakes. So, we got a recipe from the internet and made pancakes, from scratch naturally. You can't imagine how "like home" and wonderful they tasted. We even found a bottle of maple syrup at the store. So........ we ate our delicious pancakes, and then went to wash the dishes. When I turned on the hot water, it looked like coffee was coming from the tap. (This is the part where everybody is glad not to have pictures.) We tried all the hot water in the house and sure enough.... coffee. Then we tried the cold water .....none. Once again we were glad for bidons. There are always surprises in the Congo. Today the plumber came, tinkered with a few things and.........real water everyplace. Like I said, "Always a surprise in the Congo."

I also tried my luck at homemade yogurt today while Brent was off doing missionary interviews and negotiating with a landlord for an apartment for the elders. When we arrived in Lubumbashi the store had the most wonderful yogurt. It even came in large containers and tropical fruit flavors, then they only had it in small containers and now NONE. So, I'm experimenting. The yogurt solution and a pan of hot water are in an ice chest that the Headlees carried from Kinshasa on the plane when they came last month. Life is always an adventure in the Congo. Hope my homemade yogurt works!