stranded in TZ!

Hey everyone,
once again my internet time is short so i'll try and be brief...
if you haven't heard, there is rioting in Kenya following presidential elections that had been rigged - so the borders were closed for about a week around New Year. Although the borders are now open and several buses have gone safely through to Uganda, there are rumours of vehicles being burnt and we know that the roads aren't very safe still as they pass through some of the areas where demonstrations are going on....so after a week of hoping that tomorrow might be safe to travel, we began to explore the option of flying, and despite each air ticket being more than we could afford, the money has been found!! If ever in the future I am in doubt that God's bank is huge and He always provides, I will remember this time - I was wondering how many tickets i could buy with my year's budget, but even before we sat down to dinner last night we'd had news that several people had pledged to give us the money - no way was i expecting provision to come so fast, when we only began to think about flying yesterday!
Please still pray though, as although the money is there, we can only access the remainder of the balance tomorrow, and also we haven't actually made the journey yet!! after so many days of hoping that today or tomorrow would be the day we leave, i'm having a hard time believing it to really be true. we're not at all in a bad place - we are safe, we have freedom to move around and get to town (as you can see by this post!) and the church people are lovely and it's great to spend more time with them - it's just that the time has come to get home to Jinja, and we've been itching to go since before our designated leaving date anyway, so the last week has felt like months!!

on a lighter note, i have experienced many things in this bonus week - we were invited to an amazing dinner by a rich lady who not only fed us chicken, chapati and a delicious veg soup which also contained peas (havent seen them since leaving uk!) but also ICE CREAM!!!!!!!
twas fantabulous....
i have also learnt to scrub blackened cooking pots with grass and mud (open fires make pans black, we have to use firewood now as have run out of charcoal and it's expensive...the mud and grass i cannot explain, but it works!!!)
ooh gotta go, time is up!