Tany - Nov 16 & 17

I needed to post these pictures from yesterday, when we went to Briggitte`s house (the woman who used to help us with some cooking and cleaning) for lunch.  Briggitte made us yam toe and palm sauce - my absolute favorite and was it ever delicious, especially eaten Burkina-style with the right hand!  Here`s a picture of two woman pounding the cooked yams to form it into `toe`, with Briggitte in the background. 


And of course, Kenai playing soccer with his good friend, Ebenezer (Briggitte`s son) which was the big event that Kenai was looking forward to.


Like Danika mentioned, today we traveled to the village of Orodara.  I found it amazing how a 2 hour trip to Calgary can sometimes seem like a long time to my kids.  Yet the kids were able to remain patient and content during the whole 9.5 hours of travel by taxi, bus and simply waiting for the next bus, just like they used to do when they were younger.  They seemed to know that you just go with the flow in Burkina.  It used to be the other women and men on the bus who would entertain Kenai as a baby, but this time we were able to take our turn to entertain the baby of the woman behind us, when the 4-month-old began tiring of the bus ride. 
Here is a picture of the kids during our 10-minute stop with our bus behind them.  During this stop, we hurriedly bought a deep-fried chicken, some grilled beef, stone oven-baked bread for our lunch, before our 10 minutes were up and we were left behind. 
 
During lunch, I was very impressed with Danika.  She can sometimes be fussy about what kind of meat she eats, but today she thoroughly enjoyed that Burkina chicken.  And that chicken is not easy to eat because it would be an understatement to call it `tough`.

And we had a great surprise tonight, when we realized that Jeff`s best friend here in Burkina, had delayed his trip to Ouaga just so that he could visit us here in Orodara.  So we had a pleasant evening, visiting with Othniel and other friends that came from Canada, USA and France for meetings.