Friday Market

Yesterday we had breakfast and headed into town to go to the Friday Market.  We went last Friday, but the Newsome family wasn't able to go.  I didn't take my camera the first time and really regretted it. The amount of paper beads lined up is impressive and beautiful. 

 

We walked throughout the market, adding to what we had already bought the previous week, more beads, a few decorations for Jude Daniel's room and gifts for friends and family.

 

This lady was outside the second market we went to. She was sewing little purses and baskets. She wanted 4,00 shillings, which is less than $2.  As we started to walk into the market she quickly came down to 3,000.  So little money for such a lot of time. 

After market shopping, we headed to Acasia mall to have lunch.  It took extremely long to go a short distance because of traffic, but Chapel and Cara entertained themselves by playing with their new stuffed animals. 

  

After lunch, we paid 6,000 to let the kids play in the mall play area.  The Acasia mall is brand new, so this play area seemed like Disney World compared to the last one.  Trampolines, slides, inflatables, swings....they had a blast.

 

Last stop on the way home was Quality Supermarket.  We ran into a mzungo family who knew us from pictures our safari guide, Martin, had shown them on his ipad from our safari.  They had been talking to him about going on a safari as well.  They had adopted from Uganda about 4 years ago, and had just gotten here to adopt another child.  I noticed they had Ritz crackers in their basket, which I had tried to find at our last Quality visit.  They informed us the store had just gotten them and they go fast.  So we left Quality with Ritz crackers, Oreos, Doritos and some ingredients to try to make chicken salad.  :) 

Jude Daniel had a great day. I guess you could say he is potty trained...as long as we remember to take him, he goes in the potty.  We haven't had any accidents in a week, so that's nice!  We are working on him telling us when he has to go.  He's a great traveler...granted he can just stretch out and sleep on our lap while we are sitting in traffic for 2 hours. He is saying a lot more words that we can actually understand.  He's also getting better about trying to communicate what he wants before bursting into tears, but we still have several melt downs a day.  

We are anxious to get home. It's hard to believe we haven't held our Trust in over 3 weeks! :(  I know he is getting extra attention from his teachers and therapists at school and from our friends and family at church and we greatly appreciate that! Anyone at anytime, feel free to send us pictures of him (and you) through iMessage or Facebook.  It helps us feel a little more connected!