Zimbabwe

As many of you know, last summer, we had the opportunity to travel to the southern part of Africa. As part of our travels, we visited Zimbabwe. If you have watched the news lately, you have heard of the turmoil in that part of the world. The people there are dealing with the decline of their country, which once was considered the breadbasket of Africa. Now, they are dealing with crazy-high inflation and what appears to be a corrupt government. Over the last month, Zimbabwe has been in the news because they were trying to hold fair, and democratic elections. After it was becoming clear that the opposition had won, and ousted the sitting president Mugabe, the government tampered with the election results such that a run off was required. Well, in the time it took to get to the run off elections, so many people were killed and beaten that the opposition leader fled the country. It is a terrible situation where power is used not for good, but to feed pride. Because of our travels, we remember the people of Zimbabwe as people. This news hits close to us. We thought we would share some of our photos of the beautiful country and the people we met along the way.

Victoria Falls Safari Lodge
Victoria Falls

"King George" as he called himself. He told us why his dream is to move to New York (he was in costume on our boat trip... he does not dress like this all the time)