Safely arrived in Dakar

 We're celebrating being together again.

As you see from the title, we're safe in Dakar. All our luggage arrived safely too. Don't be confused, though, we really are going to Mali. We just have a small pit stop here to see our son Ben who flew out to Africa ahead of us to start his 10th grade school year here in Dakar.
We'll be here a couple more days, then we fly on to Bamako, Mali.
We really look forward to getting back to Mali. Did you know Mali is the bambara word for Hippo? And Bama, as in Bamako... is the bambara word for crocodile.... Anyone need a new pair of boots...?
We are dusting off our french as we're here in Dakar, and looking ahead to using bambara again in Mali.
I greeted a wolof boy today in bambara. He looked at me like I had two heads, not understanding a word of what I said. Oh well, I'll have to save it (speaking bambara) for Mali.

If you've wondered what Ben's dorm might look like... this is thursday night supper.

Fall festival was today. It was a western theme penny carnival. 

These guys paid to have Ben put in jail for 5 min. But they had to catch him to put him in there.

Here is Ben, dutifully serving out his sentence.

Caleb made friends very quickly. (surprised?) 

They quickly paid and wrestled him into the jail cell too.

The difference with Caleb is that no bars can hold him...

 He escaped 3 or 4 times from Jail. I guess that is one benefit of abstaining from Pizza...:-)

Keep praying for us. We think we're going to have to negotiate luggage allowance fees for our Dakar-Bamako flight. We really need the suitcases we have. We were fine to get here, using our allowed weight to get to Dakar. But this Dakar-Bamako leg is considered local because of the way we bought our tickets...
Please pray that we can come to an agreement that does not eat up all our cash.

Thanks for stopping by today,
Tom & Lisa


Tom and Lisa work with Worldventure in Mali, West Africa. If you would like to donate online to help this ministry, click this link: http://worldventure.com/Give/Give-Now.html?id=4569 If you would like to email comments, our email is: tlseward@gmail.com