First Saturday

On our first weekend (which by now is LAST weekend) catching up on sleep was the number one priority.  Saturday we slept almost until noon.  After we ate brunch we went out to explore a little bit.  We picked up some fruit that had fallen from the trees.  They have so many fruit trees here! It is so fun to be able to pick it for ourselves! There is a garden area for the International workers near the Bex Office, so I went to check that out:

We spotted an old piano in a room now being used for storage and I played that for awhile.  It's really out of tune, but that way I had an excuse if not everything sounded quite right! :D (And it did not sound quite right as I'm out of practice as much as that piano is out of tune!! Almost anyway.)

In that same building there is a depiction of what the branch expansion is planned to look like.  As it is mostly done, this is pretty close to what we see here now.  I thought you might like to see it:

Our room is in the orangish building in the upper part of the picture that has 4 sections. We live in the second section from the left facing the trees and pond. Can't see the pond from our room however.

This isn't the whole grounds and you can't see the recreational area here, but you can see the work that was done and all the essential buildings.  Everything with a bright red roof is new or remodeled.  As you can see it has been a MASSIVE project.  If you click on the picture you might be able to see more details.  The Bethel here is amazing.  I would venture to say that it is the most peaceful and beautiful area in all of Nigeria.  We love it here.

 After that we went swimming, and then we did some laundry.   Later on that night we went to an International Servant couple's room for dinner.  They are from Germany but have been serving in Africa for many years.  She made pasta by hand and baked it with cheese and all sorts of goodness.  I didn't want to stop eating!  After dinner they had dessert of baked banana's with chocolate and Amarula.  (I could barely eat it since I was such a pig about dinner.)  You wouldn't think that it could be so good, but believe me, it is!  We are going to try it ourselves tonight I think.

Next post will be about our first meeting in Nigeria!