Happy Birthday Maxine!

Maxine turned 10 today! We went to Windhoek’s only theatre for her birthday and saw the Golden Compass at Windhoek’s very modern mall. She also had a pretty elaborate scavenger hunt, finding her presents around our yard. Her favorite present was that Bill caught the HUGE, elusive spider living in her room. Most everything is shut down here on Sundays aside from a few stores and the cinema, so we are lucky we bought a cake the day before. We still don’t have a working oven, and as the university is completely closed (the whole place shuts down for a month), there is no one to contact about it. This is the middle of summer vacation/school holidays here in Windhoek, and a large percentage of the population has left to either cooler locations or to stay with family in their villages. We were happy to learn to drive the combi in a pretty deserted town. We will try again tomorrow as we venture up north to the Etosha Pan – one of the largest game parks in Africa.