Is That A Pig? 

 
Cameroon gets the prize for creative transportation methods. The first few times you see a goat bleating anxiously as it is held by the motorcycle driver, you search frantically for the child in trouble. After a while, seeing goats standing on top of a bus, or resigned to sitting down or being carried by a passenger on a motorcycle you aren't so alarmed.

Below is another example of making things work!

These are real pictures taken by my friends as they travel around Cameroon. I always manage to miss the photo ops, but mine own eyes have witnessed the ingenuity.

Loaded down...or up. 
 

Thanksgiving Day 
 
The realities of village life are that you see most of the meat you eat walking around before you eat it (Especially fowl). Moments after this Thanksgiving meal was walking around the kitchen, Ben holds up the head to show us it's on it's way to our table! How many 5 year olds do you know who can face the truth of where our food comes from as this one is doing so openly...this picture always makes me giggle. (I hope it doesn't offend anyone...once again, just the realities of village life in Cameroon!)

HEY! That's my onesie you're eating! 
 
Elizabeth, my brother's baby girl, shows Josiah, my sister's baby boy that just because she was born a month later, doesn't me she isn't in charge!

Tough Sista's! 

 
What makes the Watkin girls tick? A good wrestling match!

A Refreshing Treat Darling? 

 
...and putting on outlandish makup, dressing up, and going to McDonalds for ice cream with their aunt Christy! (The one on the left is wearing a wig. He, He!)

Arrrrrr! 
 

On Pirate day, Dea outdid us all, a true pirate at heart, stealing our hearts with her sweetness and fantastic personality.  She is the daughter of a super couple in classes with me at GIAL.