A very busy time

Greetings, these blogs are getting further apart. My apologies, I will try to get them back to weekly updates but we have had a very busy time recently and continue to have internet difficulties.
to bring you up to date..... our daughter Jen arrived on the 4th March, and so did the rain that week. It was nice to catch up and just talk and we have been spoilt by having a new laptop courtesy of generous contributions from the crew of the boat Scott skippers and Jen works on (the name is Seven Sins). Thanks to the crew, keep on making 'stuff-ups' to add to the jar.... Jen & Scott also presented us with a video camera so now we can catch all the action on film. As the operator I still need somewhat more practice, but so far have three birthdays and Rhode crawling on film.
Maesu, our 'daughter' from Japan arrived on the 13th for a week, she hasn't changed a bit, though she said we had (I've "lost weight" which is probably a polite way of saying I look old). Again we had a good catch up and she also very generously left us her old laptop, with most instructions in Japanese, along with some good maths games for the boys to play which they are loving. Unfortunately we had a lot of rain that week and although we needed it, it affected what we could do somewhat.
Scott arrived on the 18th and Maesu left on the 19th so we had a very full house for one
(I lost the internet last night while writing this so will continue now.....)
night. The boys enjoyed having the visitors especially the goodies they brought and the photos of 'The Seven Sins". It is a very different lifestyle.
We took the opportunity to go with Jen & Scott to Jinja for three nights away, while they rafted the rapids we blobbed. We came back on the Wednesday for Alvin's birthday, had Josh's birthday on Thursday, Uncle Ronald's on Friday and Matthew's on Saturday so we are almost all birthdayed out.... but there are still more to come, Hope's tomorrow and Rhode has her 1st birthday on Saturday. Marilyn is well practiced at making birthday cakes.
As well as all this NACMU had its first wedding on Sunday Letita and Biira, two of the workers here were married. We were asked to organise the service, so Marilyn chose and played the music, with help from some of the boys, and once it got underway things went well. For anyone who has been in Africa, you will know that African time is quite different from Muzungu time. the wedding was due to start at 2pm and finally got underway at 3.30pm. The pastor who was officiating was in a hurry so the vows were said in double quick time so the service was all over about 4pm.there were then photos and the reception. The bride's father turned up at 6pm, in time to give a speech and have some food and things wound up about 7pm.
Needless to say, Monday was a catch-up day to just recover somewhat.
Yesterday we went shopping in Kampala to replenish the store though Marilyn was not feeling the best.
This morning Marilyn was diagnosed with Malaria so she is now on a course of tablets and is resting.
That is all the news for now, we will try to post some photos but we have been having difficulty getting stable internet but we will keep on trying.
Until next time
God Bless