A day at the trade fair

A few weeks ago the East Africa Trade Fair was in town.  It's a bit like mini Bath and West show....without the animals.  Lots of stalls from all across East Africa selling their wares or displaying their new ideas.  Isaac was particularly fascinated by the animal pencils.
Of course they also have food available at such events.   The menu on offer included goat (mbuzi) and what we can only hope was a spelling mistake, served with chips!

It was also a good place to find some clothes and crafts.  Isaac was particularly chuffed with his new suit!

BEAN BAGS!!!!

At last, some pictures of the bean bags.
As many of you know, a large quantity of polystyrene beans made their way over to Mwanza in our bags.  Every bag had some, and we're really grateful that at the airport we didn't have to open up the bags to be inspected.
Despite so many beans making their way across, we were still a few short.  A huge thank you to Tracey who brought over an entire backpack full of polystyrene and delivered them to us when she came to stay for the weekend.  The beans actually travelled to Zanzibar and back without Tracey.

A big thank you also goes to Chris and Sarah for sending us their 'pre squashed' beans so that we could fit more into the bags.

See below for some pics of the kids enjoying the best (and almost only) bean bags in Mwanza!

 

 

Chickens!

 This post is a little late in coming, but lots of you have asked to see more of the chickens (who rose to fame during a live international video call).
Here are some photos of the chicks in their first few days.  They're a little bigger now, living in the main coop with the adult chickens and are thriving.

As you can see, Isaac was fascinated by the chicks who received lots of attention and cuddles!!