Pancakes and Fartleks

Here is a fun picture of John (with his shirt on) eating our sour-dough pancakes (a big thanks to Mom Misch for the recipe)! We killed "the pet" (our sour-dough starter) because we will be away for a few days exploring Lake Tanganyika, where John has done previous work in Tanzania. Only this time we will be on the Zambian side. We thought what better way to end this sour dough experiment (we plan to start another one when we return)than with some good old fashion pancakes, delicious. I am beginning to wonder if you all think that all we do is cook and bake things since those are the majority of our pictures!

Other news of note: we did our first real "workout" the other day. We did a warm-up jog of 10 minutes followed by 20 minutes of a Kenyan Fartlek (yes, it is pronounced fart-lick)and a 10 minute cool down. Fartlek is a Swedish word for "speed play", the Kenyan version is to run hard for one minute, jog for one minute, run hard for one minute, jog for one minute...(you get the idea). It was good to get the legs moving faster again, hopefully we will be in good 5K/10K shape for when we come back to the US. Boulder has a pretty serious running community I hear.

This morning I helped our neighbors harvest groundnuts (peanuts). It was a good time sitting outside in the cool of the early morning, talking and pulling the groundnuts off the vines. They bring the whole plant, dug up, in from the fields to their yards to finish drying before shelling because they say people will steal them if they
leave them to dry in the fields.

I hope that you all doing well. We'll be sure to update you on our trip to the lake and the sights along the way to the Northern Providence! Lots of love!