Wedding!

The Lambs were on the road again last weekend...this time to a wedding! I was in the wedding as a bridesmaid and also had the honor of playing some of the music with another bridesmaid. It was great to travel back to Maryland, see old friends and make new ones.

Of course, any vacation would not be complete without attending a car show...so we found one...it was actually a nice, relaxing afternoon with old friends! Here is Mark in a car that's just his size!

Fun on the slide...

Wedding gazebo....absolutely gorgeous weather the whole weekend - until the time of the wedding. So, we had it inside and everything was beautiful.

Sometimes we clean up pretty well...

Mmmm...chocolate....

I thought that after Africa, things would slow down a bit. They have in general, but still plenty of places to see!

Where will it be? The beach? Ohio? The mountains? Stay tuned....

Scenes of Africa

Home again, home again! Our group finally landed in Charlotte at around 11:15 last night...we were supposed to be there at 7:00. So, I was welcomed home by the puppies a few minutes after 1:30 this morning. I cat-napped on the planes for maybe 5-6 hours total in the 50 hours I was awake in the past few days, and so was more than happy to see my bed this morning! Before another nap...here are a few pictures from the trip:

Landing strip in Tabora...

Tabora airport

Inside of Moravian church in Tabora, where the women's conference was held

Batikis made by the women of Tabora, for sale.

Wearing our new batikis...

Children in Tabora - they loved to have their picture taken!

Moravian campus where we stayed.

Molly and I at closing banquet of the women's conference.

Hospital in Sikonge. The open area in the middle is to provide room for families to come and stay and help care for their loved ones in the hospital. They cook food for the patient and help them with any personal care while they are patients. Nurses do not provide those services as they do here.

My birthday cake in Dar es Salaam!

The Indian Ocean!

And finally, a few scenes from when we were travelling:

Africa Bound

Despite the lack of posts, it has been a busy year for this Lamb household, but not too much traveling. Until now.... This week I leave for Tanzania to spend 17 days doing mission work. I firmly believe that the women with whom we spend most of our time will give to me much more than I can give to them, and I am so very grateful for this opportunity. There are 12 women total in our group from North America, two of whom have already left.

Travel plans - Charlotte --> Dulles --> London --> Nairobi --> Dar es Salaam --> Tabora

I'm tired just thinking about it....

The map shows Dar es Salaam, on the coast where we will initally fly into. Then we will fly into Tabora, about a two hour flight into the country.

I hope to be able to post some while we are there, but it depends on what we have access to. We will return with plenty of pictures, many stories of adventure and blessings beyond belief, I am sure.

Last Day!

The last day before the Big 30! I had a wonderful weekend celebrating at a joint party with a friend of mine, where we all wore old bridesmaids dresses that you wear once and never again. Except when you create a party to wear them to!

(Hint: Molly and I are the ones with the hats)

Always a good idea to play croquet after dark...

Sunday morning I found two baby deer in my front yard, which was beautiful. Until....

They started eating my snapdragons -right outside my kitchen window! What is that??!?

Summer Activities

Lest anyone think that I have completely frittered away my time this summer...I am here to tell you I have been quite busy! Probably another few weeks until I start work and I plan on keeping busy...as well as celebrating the Big 30. Eek.

These have been my main summer activities:

Garden: Because of our trip out west in May, the garden was late going in. So, we are still waiting on the fruits of our labor to ripen.

Squash plants....waiting on the squash.

Lots o' maters

Mark's peppers!

Crocheting: I have also started two more baby blankets for friends having babies this fall. Just found out this weekend that a third friend is due around Christmas...so many babies!

This is for whomever has a girl...there better be at least one out of three!

The best part of the summer has been the group of Scottish students who have come over through the same exchange program that took me over there last summer. I got to know two of them last summer and have had a great time getting to know the rest of them this month. Mark and I have tried to show them a good time and this past weekend I took them to Washington D.C.

Good Southern tradition of learnin' to shoot.

My father-in-law helping Lisa with her fish.

Part of the group with my in-laws. These four spent the weekend with Mark and I two weeks ago - there are 10 total who came over from Scotland.

Part of the group in front of the Capitol Building in DC.

Me and my pal Margaret-Anne in DC.