Hippo Spotting Trip on the Kasai

We all took the 'pirogue' and went to search for hippo's.

After an hour on the boat, we found a whole family of them!

Even more Aini Photography

Aini's pic of the baby

More Aini Photography

 picture she took of her current 'nounou'

some pics at my husband's office

Sunday Morning Walk

Every Sunday morning we take a little walk with the daughter and the dog.

Lumbundji Sunsets

both seen from Cathédrale at a different time. The river is the Kasai

Aini Photography

Little girl is becoming quite the photographer

Last two are pictures of the front of the flat house we're now living in

Easter Egg Hunt

 Toad at Cathédrale. that's how they call the community house. Quite a fancy name for a very dumpy building infested with rats, bats and other vermin.

chocolate eggs don't last long under the hot sun. But this year, no eggs or paint to paint them ourselves

Congo

Lots has happened since I've last posted. I've beens struggling with this blog, and questioning wether to keep it or not.
We've moved, again! This time to DR Congo. Where we first lived in a community house and now in a small flat. We're gardening again and we live next to the river Kasai, so in the weekends we can go for a swim.

Congo is really hard. It's difficult to get food over there and there are no other women but me, so it's very lonely.
Finding decent personnel is nearly impossible, so we have decided to get an au pair from Canada.

In the meanwhile, I am six months pregnant. I got pregnant almost immediately upon arrival.

The past year we've spend lots of time in Belgium. This is actually the second time I'm in Belgium, and I only moved to Congo in March!

I promise to be back with pictures later on. Maybe I'll make this more of a picture blog than a text one.