Livingstone and Tea

We were notified that Ba Leonard's mother had died during the night. In spite of that he came in this morning to help with breakfast. It was sad to see him upset. We took up a collection to help with expenses. In Zambia, they say that if you go to the hospital for surgery, you die! His mother had had surgery earlier in the week.

We strapped all the luggage on the top, loaded up Khaki Jackie and headed for Livingstone. We made it to the Falls Park Shopping Center for lunch before checking in to the Protea Livingstone for three nights. Ian headed to the craft market and got him a bowl. In this photo he is holding the bowl in his hand, but look at the t-shirt the Zambian lady is wearing. Keri designed that shirt and I traded it at this market two years ago. We didn't tell her that because there were some ill feelings from that first encounter. However, it is a small world.

This afternoon, we went to the Royal Livingstone Hotel for High Tea. It really is a wonderful ritual to end our time here. It is great drinking tea from Royal Albert china while sitting on the bank of the Zambezi River. After tea, we headed down to the river-side deck to watch the sun set. This is a facebook profile picture I took for Ian as the sunset. Tonight is an easy night so that we can make an early start for our safari in Botswana.