More Thanksgiving photos

We received about an inch of snow on Wednesday night. Here's Coca in her reflective jacket trying to figure out this cold, wet stuff falling from the sky.



After all that play outside, Coca needed to warm up inside.



We enjoyed having most of our families together for Thanksgiving. (We missed you Chris, Jeff, Jen, and Simone!) Coca enjoyed all the company, and she took turns napping with each guest. Here she is snuggled up between the two Grand-pup-pas.



While awake, Coca spent plenty of time sniffing the family. That's Brad behind the newspaper and Jazz on Jeanine's lap.





We enjoyed dining at our new table with Liana's grandparents' china.

Home for TG

I've made it back safely for thanksgiving in Madison, for which dinner was made by committee between us and the families. Biggest shock of returning to Madison: daylight that is gone by 5 pm in winter! Close second: it's friggin cold.

Kampala

Safe arrival in Kampala and staying at a hotel in the downtown area. Unfortunately I developed a cold with lots of snot. Here I expected to contract malaria or a hemorrhagic fever or some other exciting disease, and I contracted a cold. It must have been the days spent seeing kids, who are excellent culture media for all the cold viruses.

Kampala is a big complicated city, though staying in the city center where business people and tourists stay doesn't let on. It's very clean and neat. Some of this is likely from the preparations for the upcoming CHOGM event, for which the government has been cleaning up. In particular they have fixed up the airport road to Entebbe, though there was flooding over the weekend that hopefully the queen doesn't notice (or does).

Thursday morning

Thursday morning. I've left no updates recently because the internet has been particularly slow and because I've started preparations for leaving Mbarara. I'm leaving for Kampala with some other doctors tomorrow. The plan is to have a few nice dinners, some shopping for stuff to bring home, and, for me, a rafting trip on the Nile through one of the local hostels. Then my flight leaves on Monday!

Thursday morning