A Little Tour Around Town

-

 Friday, I went with Amelia to run some errands. I wanted to go to the fabric store and grab a few more bolts of fabric and ended up getting tablecloth fabric as well!  I went to a new place in town I had never been before and it was eye opening.  We are blessed to live in the "nice" area of town. 

Most of the houses here do not have running water.  They will carry these yellow jugs to a neighborhood well and fill the up and then take them home.

The picture on the left is of school kids going to fill up the water to take back to the school. 

There had been a big rain storm the night before and the roads were covered with mud puddles!
 

Here are some of the homes. They are made of this red brick that is not water proof and crumbles.  Once you buy the property down here you have to start building immediately or the government will come and take over the property.  You will find houses all over that have been started but never completed because they ran out of money.

 

Just a couple of shots of our journey into downtown.  I can't believe how many people they fit into the yellow vans.  Amelia's sister in law said the people in the truck are going to a funeral. I don't know how she knew that but she did!

 

We finally made it to the fabric store!  I love it!  And I washed a piece of the fabric for the first time and it turns out so soft!

Amelia bought some fabric and is having dresses made for her and her girls. We stopped at this little tailor shop that her sister in law uses.  Notice the sewing machines! They are so talented here! I bought some fabric and I'm going to have a dress coat/jacket made from it!  I'm so excited!

 






















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mikembo

-
Image
 We had a long, holiday weekend so we went to Mikembo with Moren & Sisca, Darius & Leonie, Leslie, Trent, Scotty & Kayla and kids! It was my first time being there and I loved it!  I was a little nervous when I heard we would be camping in tents, but it wasn't that bad. The tents were "nice" and we just sprayed for insects 2-3 times a day. There was a pavilion where we cooked, visited, and ate. There was a pavilion closer to the river that had couches and a table. People napped there, we played games there and just relaxed!  It was very green, because of the rainy season. It was a very beautiful place!  Simi playing around in the eating pavilion.  Caught Cory taking a nap! You can see the tents in the background. Scotty and Trent went and found some wild mushrooms and cooked them up! I was excited to taste them, I love mushrooms!  These particular ones were not my favorite...they had a flavor I didn't like.    It was very hot and humid...
Read more

It is so expensive here...

-
Image
 If we were to eat like the locals, it would be very cheap to eat.  One bag of maize, which they make foo foo out of, costs $35 and it could last for ever.  We don't eat like them, though, so it is very expensive. Almost all of our food is imported from South Africa.  Here is an example. Here is my grocery haul... I bought: 30 eggs, 1 loaf of stale bread, a package of buns, 4 packs of grillers (hot dogs), a small cube of ham, block of cheese, jar of mayo, 2 cubes of butter, 3 sauces (cream of soups), 2 cream cheeses, laundry detergent, 6 Coke Zero's 2 onions, 6 mediocre potatoes, and a pack of Qtips. It cost me $145!!!! My sister, Katie, plugged it into Walmart in Utah and it would have cost $77.64 and that was for a full bag of potatoes, bottles of Coke Zero and larger detergent.  My sister, Hillary, plugged it into Walmart in Alaska and it was $91! Sisca did the same for back in South Africa and it was $73! PLUS...I didn't everything on my list! I still need t...
Read more

Week 1 at Home ~ July 1 - 7

-
Image
  Monday, July 1 I was able to be in town for this Westland Breakfast!  It was so fun to get together with all the women of Westland and laugh, visit and eat good food! One of my favorite things about Monday's in the summer is Springville City's Farmers Market!  We love to go walk around and look at all the fun booths then get some yummy food from the food trucks and share!  This time we got alfredo pasta, calzone, corn dogs, California roll sushi, BBQ brisket with garlic mashed potatoes.  Our favorite was the corn dogs and least favorite was the calzone.  I tried the sushi and it wasn't that bad...but there was no raw fish so apparently it's not real sushi! Tuesday, July 2 We got up at 5:30 so we could go fishing up at Strawberry.  Kim and Janet met us up there.  I dressed for warm weather and it was so cold that morning.  I was bundled up in blankets and sweatshirts.  It warmed up as the morning went on.  It was so nice to be out ...
Read more