Vacation!

After working and working...and working...for the last 11 months, we decided it was time for a family vacation! We joined some good friends of ours for a 3 day camping trip in Zimbabwe! We are only a 2 hour drive from the border, but the Yngsdals had to drive for 3 1/2 days to get to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe! We first met the Yngsdals at missionary training in Virginia back in 2003 before we all went onto the field. We loved them and their kids, who are now so grown up!! Little Cameron was 5 when they headed to South Africa and he is now 12 with a South African accent!

We were surprised by how much we enjoyed camping for pleasure! We've spent so much of the last 11 months camping out in Mapanza, but it was very different at a campground with showers and toilets that work and a swimming pool! Our kids had a blast, and we hope this is the first of many awesome African adventures for them! :)

Cason was very impressed with Victoria Falls

Us beside the huge baobab tree--so beautiful!

The boys at the Falls

Cambree in the pool at our campground

Cason after getting thrown by Daddy

Love this pic of us at Victoria Falls!

Group pic of us at the watering hole trying to spot an elephant!

Relaxing outside the tent

Our family at the Falls


This is a great time of year to see the Falls and you can see 2/3 more of the Falls on the Zimbabwe side than on the Zambian side

The Yngsdal Family - missionaries to the Zulu in South Africa since 2003...Dave, Julie, Mariah (17), Wesley (15), Corey (14), Cameron (12)