Day One with the Kids in Botswana

Hello! Erik here (Andy is looking for electrical adapters). I have to be quick because the Internet times out here so quickly. Also, my phone doesn't work at all, and I can't buy a sim card for it. Andy's phone does work, if you need us.

Andy and I got some much needed rest. You have to see this place we're staying at. Over the next few days, I'm going to find a place with a better Internet connection and post a bunch of pictures on Shutterfly (the link will be on the Blog page). Today, we had a great breakfast, met Annelize and Charles, and got the room set up. We had to go to town several times (well, Andy did) to find adapters. While we had lunch, about 15 monkeys showed up and one ran up to look in the window at Annelize's stilted hut. He left her a nice piece of monkey dung so that as she walked in, she was covered in it. Fun. The kids arrived and we showed them how to use the Flip video cameras and the still digitals. Then, they went out and practiced doing both. It was great fun. When we came back to the room, the adapters we bought were literally smoking and had burned out. No computers today! Thanks to Annelize, we found a solution so it should be better tomorrow....