Here and Gone Again

Hello All,
Wow, school starts again next Tues (23rd).  Can't believe this break has gone so quickly.  We are going camping in the Abedares for just a few nights.  We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Naivasha although the rain was incessant. 

I am making this short as we leave in a few hours and will not be connected until Sunday.  Trevor has elected to stay here and get his school work done!  Seems that when I told him the other day that there was only 1 week left before school starts he was in a panic!  The culture at RVA is proud to call "procrastination" one of their skills.

We are praying for the victims of the bombing this week in Boston.  A Dr friend had commented on her blog about how evil exists in all of the world.  It doesn't matter if you are here or there, evil people will try and do their thing.  The one thing that does matter is the availability of resources to help in the aftermath.  Here, when there is a large bus accident, the 2 doctors on call get others called in and there may be 5 or so for however many patients.  In Boston, at one of the local hospitals, the Dr to patient ratio went to not only 1:1 but 5:1!  This is amazing.  People just came rushing to help.  And hence there were only 3 deaths.  With the extent of the bombings, in many other areas this number would have been much higher if it were not for the resources (people and equipment) that showed up. 

Next week I will post some pictures of the Abedares and Naivasha, but for now we are going off line (in many ways) and heading out.

Thanks for being with us!

In His Hands,
Jullie T.