Go Riders Go!

Hi All

We are finally back- sorry that we were not very good at posting in the last two weeks. We were spending every single moment with our children and it was amazing! God has blessed us with such amazing kids who have grown into responsible adults who walk with the Lord. What more could a parent want?
So last night we took our kids to the airport and it was an awful trip. First off, when I say “we took” that means we hired a Watoto driver to take us all to the airport and then drop us back at our apartment. People seem surprised when we talk about hiring a driver, but it is very much needed. The road to the airport is very dark and neither of us is comfortable driving that road at night. Another reason is related to the way vehicles are insured here. Our vehicle is insured to carry five passengers so that basically means that is all we can carry- no cargo, just people. We do haul our groceries, etc home in our vehicle and have had no problems. However, if we had four or five large suitcases in the vehicle it would just be one more reason for the police to stop us and we try to do what we can to avoid that! Also, we had an additional person come to the airport with us last night- Amy (a friend from Australia) came with us to the airport to see our kids off. Now that we’ve discussed the reasons we use a driver for airport pick ups and drop offs, back to the awful trip we had.
Friday nights are very busy on the streets of Kampala and we should have planned a little better for that. Our driver was nearly ½ hour late arriving as he was caught in the jam on the way to pick us at our apartment. Travel through Kampala was very slow as many people leave the city on Friday night causing an increase in traffic. Many others are out socializing on the streets of Kampala so the foot traffic is also very busy. All of our kids tend to get carsick so the constant speeding up/slowing down, going around curves took its toll on Courtney and Charissa- they were pretty nauseated by the time we arrived. The traffic and nausea helped to keep our mind off the fact that they were leaving so there were less tears in the van than expected! We arrived at the airport two hours before their scheduled flight so there was not much time for long good-byes before they had to head into the airport (only passengers are allowed in the airport).
It has been brought to our attention that we never post pictures anymore. That is true and the reason is simply because we never take pictures anymore. We will try to be more diligent in doing that. In the meantime, you could check out our daughter Courtney's blog. She is a photographer and has posted some great pictures. It will also give you a view of Uganda/our ministry here from another perspective. Check out her blog  http://www.courtneyliskephotography.com/category/blog/
Now, it’s just the two of us again. We will get back into our routine this week, but it will be a new routine for Lorenda. Starting on Monday she will be working with the guesthouse staff helping to work on some of the administrative work. Both of the building teams from Faith know Peter- Lorenda will be working closely with Peter. It will be a great change!
It is football season in Canada and we are excited! For Christmas our children bought us a Slingbox. For those of you who don’t know what that is (like us when we received it)…it is a “gadget” that connects to our satellite receiver at home in Regina and also connects to the internet. We can then go to the Slingbox website and voila- it is just like we are in our own living room. We can watch TV live, set it to record, watch what we have already recorded. So tonight while we sleep the Saskatchewan Roughrider season opener will be taping and tomorrow after church we will be watching it. The chicken wings just got done cooking, the hot wing sauce will be made tomorrow and cooked onto the wings- then we’ll be set. Go Riders Go!