Christmas 1

A few Santa moments from Christmas #1 at the LaMonte family household!

Josh with his African truck
Brett clearly very excited about his Avatar game
Christian smiling about his game cube thingy that is far beyond my knowledge of "what the kids are doing these days."

gratuitous plane pix

they never turn out nearly as cool as the actual vista

malawi
zambia

zimbabwe

jomwa

my favorite artist and some of his works

home!

i need some ruby slippers to tap...

my last few days in malawi were crazy busy, but definitely fun. i had good dinners, good times with friends and colleagues and actually managed to squeeze some work into the mix. i left friday for johannesburg with 3 others. one new friend, Jim, invited me to his house to dinner. let me just say, he and his partner have the most awesome little abode in a very ecclectic and artsy part of the city - they made a fantastic dinner and we drank faboo south african wine into the night!

oh, and by the way, i just thought others should know that bleeping post-apartheid South Africa is more liberal and socially accepting than the US. here are some other pictures from around!
my closest colleagues Edward and Andrewour home health workers
everything is bigger in africajim & henrick's awesome pad