Adventures of Katy, Carter, and Laura

What a fun and exciting weekend! After a rainy Saturday morning we decided to head to Kumbya; a secluded peninsula located on Lake Kivu. Kumbya was set up as a retreat for missionaries. We had been down to the market before and were told you would reach Kumbya if you followed the road around...OR you could take the shortcut. So we of course took the short cut. Along our journey we would here muzungo far off in the distance. it would get louder and louder until hoards of kids would come out of the trees, bushes, up the mountains, and down the mountains to walk with us. We decided to impart some of our wisdoms on these impressionable young kids....check out the video! Well, it turns out we took the wrong shortcut! We ended up at the edge of the lake looking across at Kumbya the place we wanted to be with 20 kids surrounding us. Luckily there was a boat. And it happened to be leaving. So we bartered a price, climbed on board, and waved goodbye to all our new friends on shore. As we made it out across the lake we discovered that not only did we have to pay the boat owner but we had to row ourselves! Haha so Carter and I got to work using muscles I'm pretty sure I never knew I had. But we made it! And Kumbya was beautiful! (Ill have carter post more pics!) Katy and I tanned ourselves and washed our feet in the lake, and rested for our long journey back.... No shortcuts this time! :) - laura

Some more pictures from the adventure: