LUSAKA #2

Steph:

HASH RUN!

Gigi also introduced us to Daryl and Fritz. A really fun couple also from the embassy. Daryl is american and has lived all over the world for the government. She met Fritz while living in Austria and they got married and continued travelling. Now they are in Zambia and really like it. They invited us to go to the HASH Run. It's a weekly event that brings people from the US embassy as well as a lot of other ex-pats from all over the world and a few locals. It's a run/walk but they change locations every week. One week it'll start and end at someone's house, another week a restaurant or bar, another week a park, etc, etc. The week that we went happened to be a special one called the Internation Hydration Hash. I think it was the 700^th run in Lusaka. We ran (or walked) from one house to another and every stop had a different theme (germany, usa, england, scotland, etc). At each stop, they would have a typical snack and alcoholic beverage from that specific country. Everyone got a little tipsy, to say the least. Then we were officially initiated into the group by having to down a few beers in front of everyone. It was a lot and we met a ton of people from all different backgrounds who had eventually landed in Lusaka and now call it home. Awesome. I realized that although my cycling muscles are alright, my running ones are way weak. It all hurt :)

OTHER!

What else happened...

About 2 weeks in, Erik went for a walk and tweaked his knee somehow. It stunk, he had to really baby it for about a week, but thankfully it got better.

We got pretty into the show "24" with Kiefer Sutherland. They had all the series and I got to season 3. I watched way too much tv. Haha. Oops.

Yup.

Oh! There was a rat in the house! For weeks, the family had heard it and seen it randomly and Gigi was FREAKING out. We finally discovered where it was coming in and almost caught it a few times. Eventually some rodent experts came and blocked off their entrance. By the time we left, it seemed to have gone :) That was pretty amusing. Except for the time we couldn't sleep because the thing was running around inside our room.

Erik worked a lot on his spanish. He has improved a lot and we can actually have little conversations now. It's very impressive.  

Stay tuned for LUSAKA #3 tomorrow!!