Early this month we went down to Kampala to see Cindy and Archie and their boys, who are members of Bayview Glen Church (our home church in Toronto). We got to spend the afternoon at the Life Ministries (called Power To Change in Canada) team house in Kampala, with many little boys and dinosaurs, which we chatted and caught up.
Archie said that he had an extra helmet they weren't using, and that he could bring it for us. We said, "Wonderful! Well, maybe we'll still order one, because we weren't sure if we'd order 1 or 2, and then you could bring that one?" Archie said he had a second helmet that we could also have. And so you see us sporting our "new" helmets!
Now all is well in Marianne's conscience, which felt very bad about riding around without a helmet after spending 2 years working with head injury patient research at Sunnybrook Hospital ICU!
[Incidentally, in Pader, most people have never seen a bike helmet before. One friend came up to Marianne and asked, "What's that funny, funny thing you have on your head?"]
Our trip was supposed to be in the middle of May to see Archie and Cindy and our new interim Country Directors. However, it had to be pushed up because of some rather unpleasant health problems Marianne was experiencing. We're happy to report that she's now healthy and strong.
We had also planned to go to the dentist in Kampala, which we did.