A Picture's Worth How Many Words?

Sorry, my brain is fried right now, we've had some exhausting days recently, but I really wanted to post some more pictures and stories. I'm going on the theory that a picture is worth 1,000 words (though Nathan and I were wondering if the phrase uses the word thousand, or million?). Well here are the photos to make up for my few words. Though I've already used over 50...
These are the mongulu (leaf huts) that are right near out house. They only take a few hours to make, but last a few months. I love this picture because it was just starting to rain and the Baka took their fires into the huts, so you can see the smoke coming out through the door and roof...does a leaf-hut have a roof?

In Contrast is our house, though very small and basic, it's still so much MORE than a leaf hut. Can you just hear the rain pounding on the tin roof? Deafening!

Nathan's being the hero here and helping tow our landlord's vehicle out of the mud with our Hilux (that's now white and working, mostly...though we haven't yet been reimbursed from the accident).

On his way to help the Andertons manage an army ant invasion around 11pm last night (though they were doing quite a good job even without him), Nathan found this snake in the yard. It's very docile and Nathan's trying to decide whether we are going to keep it as a pet, sigh. It's a burrowing python?

Ok, in this picture we are doing a reenactment of when the Pope came to Cameroon and the Baka people presented him a turtle as a gift. We didn't eat it...but some of our neighbors did AND wasn't it so nice of them to clean out the shell for us? Yes, it's now stinkily sitting on my window sill. I'm wondering if it won't make a good hiding place for the snake if we make terrarium.

And lastly, a good rainy afternoon activity for our kids and the Anderton boys: playing with the pattern blocks from the kid's math curriculum. Lots of creativity with squares, triangles, hexagons, rhombus' (rhombi? seriously?), and parallelograms.

And that was part of our week...