uganda etc.

we are picking up kylie's dad greg from eldoret today and this weekend we will be heading off to do some more travelling and hiking with him. in the meantime i am finishing off a marathon week of work. i was on call this weekend and it was BUSY! on friday i started off with a c section in the evening and it went downhill from there. after admitted numerous patients i got to bed around 12:30 only to be woken up at 2:00 to see a guy who had been shot in the leg. the bullet entered his lateral thigh, smashed through his femur, exited his medial thigh, reentered his testicle and exited the penile shaft on the opposite side... ouch! he had lost a lot of blood so i was pretty worried about him, and he couldnt feel or move his leg, so after resuscitating him i was still worried that he would lose his leg, but by day 2 he had blood flow and some sensation back. whew. i am still not sure about his convalescent copulatory capacities though. his buddy had been attacked with a machete but wasnt quite as bad.

before greg comes and we have a whole new batch of pictures i thought i should post a few more from uganda:

here is kylie outside the fishing village we camped beside in the ssesse islands. the island dwellers were much friendlier on the whole than urban ugandans.

exploring the island with a motorbike. day 1, just after it stopped raining.

there was a monitor lizard that used our campsite as a hunting ground. we were pretty impressed with this one, which was a little over a meter long. then we found out that someone had killed this one's mother on the beach last year and she was about 2 meters long!

when we were camping in mabira forest near kampala we encountered a number of these trees which were huge but had no central trunk, just a tangle of supporting roots. amazing bioengineering.

freaky half mannequins which were absurdly common (and a little scary) in masaka.

chris and rachel on a motorbike in jinja.

as mentioned previously, we got stuck on buggala island for 5 days b/c we just couldnt bear to leave. the days were filled with swimming, hiking, kayaking, motorbiking, eating, sitting around the campfire and just relaxing in general. i discovered that beaches are ideal locations for practicing tai chi and took full advantage of all the free time and soft sand.