The end

Friday we finally completed the family room the final room to be renovated on our schedule. We're all  SO pleased but find our selves today with mixed emotions as we now all have to say goodbye. Some will stay but the majority of the team now will return home leaving a small group to stay and start stage 2 of the renovations here ready for next years internationals.Who knows whats next for us? BUT for now today we say goodbye to all the friends we have made here in Zim. We look forward to seeing you all soon untill then
thanks for reading x Love the Bells

Assembly and final week

Our assembly was last weekend and was a good weekend very hot at times, peak attendance for our section of the district 2091 with 34 baptised.

Sitting with friends at lunch was a nice chance to catch up before we were to say good by to them for the last time this visit

Don't be deceived by the clouds was Warm!

Baptism of the 34!

Me and Anne ( the I.S sister we work with on our project)

SO Just a few pictures of the weekend and since then our feet haven't touched the ground. Returning back to work monday afternoon we find we need to return to some jobs and we work through till 10pm and last night Lester was laying carpets and mending some newly laid damaged floors up until 11.40pm! But THANKFULLY tomorrow we will find our selfs finishing our last room and day of work here in Zimbabwe Bethel and we are so pleased to have been able to get to this point with the team and so relieved as well!!
We have a busy weekend planned our final trip to the dam, the team leaving do and co visit to finish before we return home tuesday oo and pack! We hope to blog you one last time but until then only 4 days left to enjoy whats left!!!

Less then two weeks to go and the count down begins!!

Helloooo Can you sense the excitement? The end is so close we can smell it!! Work is close to completion although we shall wait and see if we make it in time! But for now we look forward to our district assembly this weekend which we are really looking forward to and not only because we can sit down for three days, but because you've all told us how good it is and we look forward to seeing for ourselves.
So below is the photo of our lion, yes we have claimed her as ours as she is our first wild lion! She looked at us then walked off, RUDE! Blink and you'll miss her!

Hwange and Vic Falls

Safari begins!! Our first day after our first night under canvas listening to elephants bath less then 100 meters away. It took us 13 hours to arrive and with in half hour we'd spotted a lion walking in the distance (picture still to come!) Above the group me, Lester, Sport, Kate, Michael and June

You know we thought that he was yawning but its actually a warning when they do this not to get to close! So we didnt!!

The camp surrounded by a twig fence!! We had cold showers and then fires to keep us warm after!!

So the last night about 2am ish an elephant walked strait through the fence as the watering hole had run dry, he walked through the camp drank from the septic tank and then walked through the fence on the other side! I just pushed my ear plugs in and tried to ignore what was going on and Lester stayed inside with me, But sport and kate rushed out to make sure he didnt come to the tents or wreck the kitchen area!! We'll show you a little video of where he went when we get home! Apparently best not irritate them or they charge ( I feel the same actually!)

Afternoon snack?

This is a baby hyena, we went out most mornings around 6 to try and see the predators this little chap was very inquisitive, the other morning we saw a cheetah but we spooked him and he ran so fast we couldn't get a photo!Awesome

We saw masses of ele's and their babys!!

If you sit at the watering holes you see the Elephants run to them as their so thirsty and go nuts rolling in the water and mud we spent hours watching!

Crocks lying in wait for the other animals to slip up!

Zebra!

Giraffe!

Victoria Falls we stayed in a lodge surrounded by monkeys and wart hogs! Seeing vic falls from Zimbabwe side was far more impressive and you get to see the full length!

spot the silly fisherman!! He saw us then started waving!! People even pay to swim in a pool on the edge of the falls!

On our final day we did a final view of the falls but from the air!! wohoo!

"Raise your hand Maurice its more fun if you raise your hands" 

 

 

Awesom!!

 So these are just a few of the things we had a chance to enjoy over the past week we'll tell you more when we get home! We arrived back to Bethel to find work progessing well and more help has also arrived so we are on track to finish as planned the 23rd of August and to then for us to arrive home the following Wednesday, with a little over three weeks to go it finally seems real that we are coming home to see you all as they're already planning our leaving do's!! BUT there is still much work to and our assembly to attend before we come home!! We look forward to seeing you all soon and showing you the many more photos to come!!
Lots love us xxx