Goodbye Dowds Family

Farewell to Akina Dowds (the Dowds party)

So on Friday evening we finally said goodbye to my mother, brother and sisterin-law. It was a sad moment when we finally waved them off as they departed for the airport. We were all agreed that the holiday had been an unqualified success, and quite action-packed too.

The three of them went on safari in the Ngorongoro crater and in the Lake Manyara national park. They were fortunate enough to see a Cheetah, as well as the usual hippos, elephants, antelope, zebra, monkeys and baboons. They returned exhausted after their two-day trip.

Our little house can be a little crowded with five in it, but we managed quite well with the space we have. We have managed to acquire a barbecue grill for our little compound, and so now the sunny days have returned we hope we will make regular use of it.

Tomorrow more guests will be arriving - a couple from the US whom we don't yet know. As they are our brother and sister, doubtless we will get along just fine.

The second photo here is a snap of Kilimanjaro from our aeroplane to Zanzibar.