Lusaka

Well we arrive in Lusaka the capital of Zambia.

It was a fairly uneventful flight...except something that Jer's parents had hoped that we would experience.....as the plane touched down on the run way everyone started cheering.

It was incredible how it was not taken for granted....I loved it.

We got here late in the afternoon. We were staying here for one night and then off the our real destination....Ndola.

We were driving ourselves to Ndola so we opted to rent a van.

We were going to use this van to drive everywhere we wanted to go for the next 17 days.

We will be going to many different places. Spent a lot of time in that van.

We also had to change money. Thankfully everything thing was available and open at the airport.

We were planning to take the van over two other border crossings...so we needed the appropriate paper work to get through those borders well.

The company was really good...they didn't have the paper work for us but would get it to us before we would want to leave the country....sooo good of them.

That's the van!!!!

So when we were in Ethiopia for the night there Jer and I couldn't seem to get the hot water running...and after two and half days of traveling...I took a shower anyway.
So when we got to the guest house I really wanted a nice warm shower.....It wasn't plus we couldn't find the light switch.
So before we went for supper we asked where the switch was...and found out that that switch turns on the heater for the water...Hallaluiah....I had a hot shower.
The switch on the other hand was in a very odd place....in the hallway behind a wall hanging.

This guest house was called the Zebra guest house....hence the zebra in the front by the gate.

We stayed there once on the way there and on the way home.

Jer liked to look at the electrical....this was outside.

This is the outside of the guest house....the white metal thing is what they call a geezer. It is the water heater...I think that every bathroom had one.

The gate to the guest house.
We went to a mall for supper to this restaurant that was delicious. When we showed up there was a band playing music near the restaurant....it was sooo cool.
When we came back we drove up to the gate and honked, then the watchmen would come and open the door if they recognized that you have been there before.
My first site of Zambia was in the more modern city of Lusaka....it was different then I expected. More modern and crazy.


Early the next morning we left for Ndola.....