Uncle Tim's Visit

It was great to have Andrew's brother, or "Uncle Tim" to the children, here with us in Dodoma for a week, after his trip to Malambo with Andrew. We always love having visitors out here in far off Africa! Ben was particularly excited to see Uncle Tim again, as he had heard that Uncle Tim now lives in Hong Kong and had convinced himself that Uncle Tim must therefore be Chinese and would come to Tanzania to teach us how to use chopsticks (with all the carefully thought out logic of a 3 year old!). 

Ben was rather disappointed to see that Uncle Tim was actually not Chinese!! To compensate, we all went out for lunch at Dodoma's very own Chinese restaurant at the main hotel in town- and Uncle Tim shared with us all his experience of eating with chopsticks- much to Ben's great delight!

  

Tim also got to see more of the sights of Dodoma, even though he has visited us once here before (during our very first Tanzanian Christmas).By the way, those are live chickens in the basket on the back of the bicycle, on their way into the market- for the very last time!

  Tim helped me out with a trip to the market, with a few more pictures here for you of our Dodoma "shopping centre", the market, as we bought some spices, peanuts, veg and fruit...

 ...and even a new bin, storage container and basket at one of the plastic stores:

 Tim poses with the heavy basket of potatoes and vegetables outside the main market entrance:

 ... and a shot of a nearby city street with some local "duka" -or shops:

 There was also time to drop Ben off at Nursery- and we are so pleased that Ben has settled in well and is thoroughly enjoying his new school- here he is registering his own name on arrival at school with his MAF friend, Aleah...

 ...and posing with his (kneeling!!) Nursery Teacher Miss Marion:

It was good to show Tim a bit more of our life in Dodoma, and spend time with Andrew's brother AND sister Claire all reunited together here in East Africa for a short time! (Thanks again Tim for the photos :-) )