No, This isn't an April Fools Joke.

I feel like I always start these posts off by apologizing about the length of time between posts.  I could give a lot of pretty legitimate excuses for why I dropped off the bloggy map for the last 1.5 months, but instead I will just leave my first ever vlog post here:

It's a little sappy, and for that I will apologize.  But, give me feedback! Let me know if you enjoy this whole vlog thing and maybe I will do another one at some (probably really distant) point in the future.

For now, we're off on Spring Break for the next 2 1/2 weeks.  Although, all of next week we will still be here in Morogoro and I may be FINALLY getting a rain garden project underway (it seems rainy season may have started at long last).  The week after, however, Veronica, Dana, and I will be travelling.  We're going to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and ending with a weekend in Kibaha at our Tanzanian Mama's house where I will be painting a mural in her 6-year-old daughter's room.

In other news, my stomach issues are a never-ending battle (just finished another round of anti-parasitics-- thankfully this time they gave me a non-NSAID pain reliever for the accompanying headaches) and it's finally fall here which means rain and "cold".  Cold here, of course, is the sort of warm weather all you on the east coast have been dreaming about for months... but I did actually think about grabbing a sweatshirt this morning.  Which is really saying something coming from someone who has essentially spent the past 4 months continuously sweating.

Apologies in advance for the undoubtedly long wait until the next post, 

Carolyn