And the Winners are...(drum roll)

1-The Good Life (Linda Anderson)

2-Mary Delmege

3-Bianca Rose

4-Jen Nicholes

5-The Martinez Family



And the grand winner is Bianca Rose
(These results have been verified by Spencer and Associates)


Thanks to all those who participated by becoming a follower of our blog. For those of you who didn't win, fret not, as we will do this contest once or twice while we are in Zimbabwe. (Remember everyone is welcome to come visit us in Zimbabwe and you will have a place to stay while you go on Safaris, ride elephants, and play with lion cubs. For those soccer fans, the world cup is in South Africa so Harare is a good place to spend some time before or after you go to a match.)


As for the winners what I need from you is

1) If for some reason someone from the family of the winner was actually the one who signed up as a follower and not the actual person listed, please let me know. For example if Jen is actually Lindsey or Ashely or Nathan, or maybe even Bart, or if Mary is actually Scott, or Bianca actually Colby or Luke or Melissa. If the names listed above is actually the person who signed up as a follower then there is no need to let us know.


2) Please let us know what type of prize you want. Some example of items are masks (wood and fired clay, old and new) wood carvings (elephants, giraffes, alligators, pots, bowls, jewelery boxes), jewelry (malachite, wooden, beaded) malachite carvings (Malachite is a green semi-precious stone and there is jewelry made of it and other carvings such as eggs, frogs, elephants, dolphin), paintings (of african scenes), african cloth, kuba cloth, greeting cards, a monkey (wait I can buy this, but it may be difficult getting it past customs), an african doll, or if there is something you collect let us know and we will try and find something to add to your collection (money, stamps, spoons, etc)


3) Almost everybody we will be seeing while we are back in the states in July and August, I think that is everybody besides Bianca. So most of these will be hand delivered, but if for some reason you would prefer we send it to you in the mail let us know.


4) Bianca since you are the grand winner, let us know of two things from the above list that you would like.



In response to the comments. We will do a future post about church here. As for more pictures, unfortunately taking pictures in the Congo is a big no-no. It may or may not be against the law, either way if the military or police see us taking pictures they will confiscate our camera (and since we have already lost three cameras in the two years we have been here, we don't want another one lost.) However I will be taking some video footage over the next couple of weeks and when we are back in the United States with good internet access I will upload the video. In Zimbabwe the no camera rule doesn't exist, so we plan on taking alot of pictures.