It is Sunday March 29 and we are finished our volunteering. We have left our home and are staying in a hotel with a swimming pool and brochettes to die for. Tomorrow we fly to Arusha. Our family was sorry to see us go, or so they said. They had a party for us last night, with some of the neighbors and a ton of food. We bought the beer so we had lots of that too. It was fun with lots of African singing and dancing. It is part of the Rwandan culture to have a party when they have guests. Our last day at the Centre was a lot of good byes and well wishes for happy travelling. A wonderful group of ladies who we will not soon forget. They are brave women who have endured much adversity and most of them are still smiling. We both have had different experiences with our volunteering so we will have lots of stories to tell when we get home. We are happy to be done and on to some exciting travelling.

Last weekend we travelled to Nyungwe, a rain forest in the south part of Rwanda. A beautiful park that is home to many different kinds of monkeys but unfortunately we were to late in the day and they were all sleeping. But we had a nice hike and saw many different kinds of orchids, huge old growth mahogany trees but no monkeys. We stay in a traditional rondel (round house) right on the lake and it was a very pleasant weekend. We were refused accommodation at one of the hotels because we were not married. Was the joke of the day.

Yesterday we tried our hand at golf in Kigali and Tiger Woods still has a job. We has to take caddies and that we new for us and in the end we really enjoyed them. One of them spoke very good English and we had a good time with them. The golf course was very pretty with flowering trees. Hot as hell but fun.

We start our safari on Wednesday and are looking forward to that. We will be on safari for 8 days so am not sure about email access while we are travelling so our next update may be after April 8. We continue to be well, no sickness of any kind. Hope it lasts.

Rwanda is an incredibly safe country and we were not worried about travelling around even at night. We will have to do a mental adjustment to make sure we travel safe from here on in.