About a year ago, we went cross country skiing with the Crum family. We met where our friendship started, in Brownsburg, Indiana, and had a delightful weekend together. Paige and Rachel enjoyed a variety of adventures during her family's year long furlough, they canoed, camped, played paintball, went spelunking, played cards and laughed for hours. During each visit, they talked about the time when Paige would visit Rachel in her home, in Kenya. Now it seems we are about the realize that long discussed dream, a trip to Africa to meet the Maasai, to visit the Crum family in their home surroundings and to experience a culture very different from our own suburban St. Charles home. This blog is going to be a way to share our experience with family and friends at home. So, this is just the test and a hint of what's to come. We leave on June 11 and arrive back in the US July 4. I anticipate that we will be changed by this trip in ways we can only imagine! Come back and check it out!

Sandy