Christmas for me was awesome, minus the missing friends part. I went to the biggest waterfall in the world: Victoria Falls! It was amazing the water falls into the knarly Zambezi river, which i rafted. My Canadian friends, Jodi(whose from Hawaii) and i decided to take on the class fives rapids of the Zambezi. These class fives were more like class sixes. HUGE!!!!!!!! we went through 10 rapids and only three of them were below class 4 and still huge!. The crocodiles add a bit more adventure to the river as well, and oh yes I flew out many times taking on the storm waves with my bobbing head and open mouth trying to not get sucked down by the swirling eddies which were unavoidable. But hey i survived!!! And would do it a lots more if I had more money, it was expensive but well worth it. And the gorge was stunning!

The man with the baby in the basket was in the town of livingstone where i have been staying for about a week now and thought it was too great to not photo.

Love you all much and miss you, I will be heading back to Lusaka tomorrow and then back to Mkushi to start work on the 6th. My break has been a wonderful unexpected adventure but feel ready to have clean clothes again and stay in one place for awhile. I hope everyone had a great new year, welcome 2010!

much love, r