| We were delighted to get to spend this past weekend with our dear friend Amy DeWit, currently from Chicago. She came to Karamoja to be our children's teacher in 2004, when things were pretty grim for us on the mission field - the combination of chronic malaria and homeschooling was almost more than I could stand! - and really turned our lives around. Then she loved Karamoja so much she couldn't leave, and ended up staying for 3 years! We enjoyed many visits to villages, trips to Mbale & Kampala, and even to Murchison Falls National Park, with Amy & some of the other teachers. She was a tremendous blessing to our mission with her enthusiasm and perseverance. Now she's Stateside again, teaching & doing special tutoring for high school students. We had a chance to see a lot of the sights while she was here, including the Atlantic Ocean. Saturday was a mild day & we cruised S. Jersey, from the Deptford Mall to Cape May.  I was happy to take her around my family's old haunts, including where my parents had lived and to see my great-grandfather's house (now a B&B named after him, the John F. Craig House).
Amy wrote that when she returned to Illinois after her trip here, she told her students she'd been to New Jersey for the weekend and had gotten to see the ocean. One of them replied, "Cool! Which one?"
We visited some friends in Woodstown & we have a picture from there too.
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| We're in the States till June and hope to get in touch with everybody. Now that I've finally started to use this maybe we'll actually write in it! Takes us geezers a little while...
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