CHOGM finally arrived. Up until the last day, the preparations were still underway. On Wednesday sidewalks were being laid, flags put up, and we got guardrails in strategic roadside locations. Thursday and Friday were declared public holidays (maybe so the motorcades wouldn't have to deal with regular Kampala traffic). So I headed out to Fort Portal with Sharon and Jonas.

I got a Thanksgiving holiday, but not the delicious dinner to go with it....over-boiled chicken, chapati and guacamole. I didn't bother opening the can of cranberry sauce I'd brought along, just in case.

Colobus monkeys sleeping off a big lunch near our bandas at Lake Nkuruba

View of Lake Nyamirima and Lake Nyinabulita (both crater lakes) from Top of the World. It was a little too cloudy to really see the Rwenzori mountains that day.

Collecting rainwater at a hillside compound

Girl bringing water back from the well



Rockin the old school boombox

Caught in a rain storm and sheltering in someone's house

And then caught in the mud

Pulled out with a little help from the village

View from our lakeside bandas at Lake Nyinabulita, home to the areas only hippo (be careful if you decide to go for a swim)

Scarecrow in the fields near the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary

Walking through the Bigodi wetlands

Stag horn ferns growing on orange-flowered trees

Cacoa tree

Olive baboons

My first documented sighting of Uganda's national bird, the crested crane

View towards Bundibugyo, in the Rwenzori Mountain foothills

Butcher shop in town on the way home

On his way to the butcher shop?

Just learned that my camera has a widescreen view. Dang!