September 25, 2008

We're headed back to Burkina!

After our 40-day hiatus here in Pretoria, South Africa, we are cleared to go back to work in Burkina Faso. Yippee! We are both as healed as can be and are looking forward to FINALLY getting back to being Peace Corps volunteers again.

Sonia's hip is doing well. She's gotten pretty used to her crutches by now. Here's the x-ray showing the three titanium screws placed in her leg, a nice little souvenir she'll have well, forever. We're planning to give them a test-run through the many metal detectors we'll pass through this weekend en route to Ouagadougou. Go-go Gadget hip!



Thank you EVERYONE for all of the warm wishes and good thoughts you've sent us over the last month. What an experience. We're both a bit nervous to be getting back and just hope we can get back into the swing of things quickly.

While this wasn't a vacation by any means, we did have a wonderfully relaxing time. We wish we could have seem more of South Africa, but now feel like we have a good reason to come back some day (not due to medical reasons of course). Pilanesberg was amazing and we'd love to get over to see Kruger Park, the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, and the rest of the Western Cape (the Bordeaux of Africa).

We leave you with a couple of snapshots we took here in Pretoria at the National Botanical Garden. It wasn't quite as spectacularly botanical as we had hoped, but saw some nice cacti and a few flowers.

funny looking cactus people


some kind of cactus flower


a little waterfall pond thing

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