It was how big?

Look what we pulled out of Lake Victoria
A Nile Perch weighing 29.4 kilos (almost 65 pounds)

So, after Mike and Tanya being here for three weeks, we decided it was finally time to have some fun before they head home on Monday. We have got all the work we can out of them so we headed out to Jinja yesterday for a day of fun! Jinja is a small place about 80 kms from Kampala- I know you are thinking, “Oh just a nice little drive”. Not so! We left Kampala at 6:00 AM to avoid traffic and it still took us two hours to get there. On the way home we left at 6:00 PM and got to our apartment at 9:20 PM.  Traffic is bad here- all the time, but you can’t let it ruin your day!
First thing in the morning we went fishing on Lake Victoria. We were on a 32 foot boat with a great guide named Rob (from Australia). He had been out the day prior and they caught only one fish. We knew that it may be just a nice boat ride around Lake Victoria, but even that would have been fun. However, we prayed about this trip before we left and God blessed us abundantly! Mike and Greg caught nine fish with the biggest one weighing 29.4 kilos- that was some fish! At one point they both had a fish on the line. Rob told them they were likely caught up on something, but no- they each hauled in a good sized fish. There was much excitement on that boat for the whole four hours we were out there.
In the afternoon we went on a “Quad Safari”. When I hear the word safari, I think animals- we only saw people, goats and cows. We spent two hours ripping around on quads—through the trees, mud, small villages and then down to the Nile River in a couple places. We got a few scrapes riding through the trees, got filthy riding through the dirt and mud and one of us (who shall remain nameless) tipped his quad! Arms and legs are a little stiff and “spagetti-ish” today, but it was a great day of much needed fun and frivolity.
As this blog is being written, we are in a van, going down a very bumpy road heading for Murchison Falls National Park where we will go on safari- stay tuned for the details!