Between Matt’s Cape Town adventure and his next work trip we were able to squeeze in an Easter holiday at Peponi on the Tanzania coast. We’ve been to Peponi several times and love the laid back atmosphere, food, pool, dhow trips, sand island, and tide pool adventures not to mention how we always run into friends there. Taylor came with us. He’s the (18 year old) son of a good friend and coworker of Matt’s who is volunteering in Tanzania this month. So much fun to have him along (despite him learning a lesson the hard way about the sun intensity near the equator).
Fun times around the lodge: tide pools, regular pools, and games
Dhow snorkel trip to sand island
Anderson and Ash trying to explain the rules of “Flounders and Bears” to Taylor. Taylor was the bear and if the kids lay flat (flounder) the bear couldn’t see them. (C’mon Taylor. You never played flounders and bears as a kid?)
Boys only fishing trip on a boat from the local village makes for a very happy (and tired) little boy
Peponi sunrise
Taylor with the kids.
Wouldn’t be a Tanzanian road trip without a little bit of car trouble.
Snow dusted Mt. Meru to welcome us home. Gorgeous sunset view as we drove down the road toward our house (you can see our roof in the foreground)
Unfortunately we came home to a house that had been without power for 4 days (main switch flipped the day after we left). It meant we had to throw away a lot of food, but it could have been much worse. Ashy also got an ear infection which was so painful for her. I think we’re through the worst of that now, too. It was still a great vacation with great time together as a family. The kids loved having Taylor with us and they told me it’s almost like having an older brother. Very cute.
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