Easter Adventures

If a trip to the clinic with Zara wasn't enough excitement for this holiday then Saturday afternoon brought more. As we look forward to a couple of days of rest the phone rang. It was our Office Manager. The reception in our house is not a good place to answer a phone so I went outside and heard the last sentence "...are you guys at home.." Well to cut a long story short I passed the phone onto Simon as this sounded like a job for a man. Two men were supposed to have jumped the wall at the MAF Guesthouse and Simon was assigned the task of finding out what they were doing there. I told Simon he should take Chewy (our dog) but decided against it as Chewy can take a sudden dislike to strangers who are not of the white variety. I don't think she has figured out she is black but anyway that is another story. When Simon got down to the Guesthouse a Policeman was already running towards the gate. Simon quickly checked the grounds but to no avail. He checked another MAF house which was close by but nobody was there either. The Police figured the men had run off but Simon wasn't so sure. He manged to get into the grounds of another MAF house and then onto a wall before jumping into a further MAF house (hope you are all following the story) compound. As he checked the front door he could see straight through to the back door where two men were trying to get into the house. He yelled at them and they sheepishly walked round to the front of the house where Simon took them to where the Police were. They said that they had been looking for tin. (we have heard better excuses than that). Simon and another MAF family watched on as the Police "interrogated" the two men. Finally they all went down to the Police Station to give in their statements. Simon came back a few hours later having saved a MAF family from a break in. Just another exciting day in Uganda......