Family visiting

Yes, we are still here, but it's just been very busy, and I haven't been able to post everything that I've wanted to. So, to start off we'll just do our most recent trip and then backtrack to things that happened around Christmastime.

We were lucky enough to have Tyler's parents come out and visit us for 19 days! It was his mom, dad and his little sister (who Spencer adores!). We were so excited for their visit, and planned a trip to Victoria Falls, Chobe (in Botswana) and Hwange to show them all the fun stuff there is in Zimbabwe. I didn't take many pictures of them at the house, because mostly you would be seeing Tyler's mom reading, Tyler's dad and I playing Settler's of Catan Cities & Knights, and his sister playing video games while Tyler went to work and Spencer went to school, or we would be watching movies. So nothing too interesting to miss there.

We did though take MANY (over 800) pictures of our trip. No, I won't show all pictures, but you now have to understand how hard it is to cut it down to 10 pictures a post!!! We'll just start with when we got to Victoria Falls and how the falls looked in this post.

To start off, you remember how our own family took the trip to Victoria Falls in October the dry season, well here is a picture to remind you of what we saw then.

And here it is when we went in January, the middle of the rainy season! Such a difference and so beautiful still!

Getting ready to go and see the Falls. Amazingly enough, we were getting misted on by the Falls at this point already.

Here is a picture of the Falls during October the dry season.

This is mid-rainy season in January. Green on the rock and a lot more mist! The mist grows even more later on in the rainy season (Nov.-April/May).

A monkey we saw on the pathway. There were many, and some little babies too! Springtime just ended here, because we are in summer now and so I forgot that we'd see so many babies going on safaris this time, it was great!

Strong overflow from the Falls.

Our family in front of the Falls. The wind shifted so we could get this picture without much mist.

It was so powerful.

Todd being Indiana Jones getting through the jungles of Africa.

Our family picture during the dry season in October.

This is in the same spot as the above picture. I couldn't even go where Tyler and his mom were because there was too much mist and water, and it would damage my camera. It felt sometimes like it was just raining right there on us.

Looking down at the rest of the Falls...oh wait, you can't even see it because of the mist!!!!

Breathtaking.

Little dew drops on the grass around the Falls.

Remember how we looked over the ledge at the very end of the Falls, and there is no water anywhere to be seen in October.

This is that same ledge, in which they couldn't even get close to the edge because it was very slippery and so rainy.

It was incredible to see the difference 3 months makes here at Victoria Falls! One time we were stopping because it felt like it was raining, then we realized it was raining but from the Falls, not from weather. Like Tyler's dad said, it's like it's own weather system. The mist would evaporate, make clouds and then it would rain right there by the Falls. We did get soaked but it was lots of fun still!