Mountain climbing

Had a great weekend in Mbingo. We spent two nights at a little Guest House up there with two other missionary families, was a lot of fun. Mbingo is up in the mountains and sooo gorgeous. Friday we went for hike to see a waterfall. The weather was warm and a little overcast so it was just perfect. There was flowers of all different colors everywhere. We saw lots of birds including a green-crested Turaco (good job I had by bird book with me). Anyway we had planned to have a picnic up there and after about an hour of sitting up there, taking pictures, enjoying the view, the clouds started to roll in. We thought it was so cool and just sat there talking about them. About 30 minutes after that it starting lightning and raining really hard! Praise God our friends had brought an umbrella or Jude would've got drench. We made a mad dash for it down hill, I jogged most of the way trying to get back as quickly as possible to get Jude out of the rain. Praise God only his feet got wet. Everybody else was absolutely drenched and muddy. But it was still a great time and now we know next time to head back as soon as the clouds come!

We also got to relax, play games, read our bibles, watch a movie, and have great fellowship with our friends.

When teams come out, we'd love to take them up there for an afternoon to have a picnic and experience a bit of Cameroon's beauty (anyone interested?)

Hiking up, we're at about 5,600 feet here (and yes I am carrying Jude in my arms despite the fact that I have a baby carrier on my back :)

Looking down at the waterfall. This picture doesn't do it justice, it was actually a little scary looking over this rock, it was a straight drop down of a hundred feet or so.

Family picture, including our Stider with his tongue hanging out.

This is the exact same shot as the one above, just with the clouds that we though were so "pretty."