Mulungushi Weekend -or- Weekend of Ups and Downs
Friday after work we left town for Lake Mulungushi, which is a little over two hours outside of Lusaka. We stayed the night in Kabwe so we could spend time with our friends the Moyers. We had a great dinner with Tina and the kids (Dan is out of town) and after a few quick games of lazertag (in their backyard) we played volleyball from about 10pm-12am. AFter a good night’s sleep and a great pancake breakfast we loaded up and drove the buuuumpy road out to the lake.
When we finally make it, we unloaded our gear and food, chatted for a while with some of the other people staying there, checked in on the house that Vaughn and Dustin are building right on the lake, and then went for a hike in search of the Mulungushi waterfall. With only a little effort we made it to the bottom of the big waterfall, went swimming in the pool it had created, and even climbed a bit up the face of the waterfall to a little cave where the hundreds of gallons of water would flow over our bodies. (It was a small “cave”… probably not as cool as you’re imagining, but cool nonetheless to be SEEING THE BACK SIDE OF WATER out in the wild, and not just on Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise (shoutout to Al Stewart).
We hiked a little more, jumped off a cliff into the lake (sorry mom), evaded a Monitor Lizard, and then sunbathed and watched the sunset from the highest peak around the whole lake. Dinner was fantastic as was the bonfire that followed, and by bed time we were all ready for it. The next morning we made a great egg scrambler breakfast and went canoeing to the other side of the lake, through some marshlands, then to a different cliff jumping spot for swan dives (sorry mom) and aloe vera plants that soothed our skin.
A picture of us cooking/eating (Vaughn IS in this picture, don’t worry):
So, it was a great weekend! … or you can read an excerpt from an email that I sent to Heather and my mom:
“so my external hard drive here is officially broken. the jack that i plug the little USB thing into the hard drive broke off, and so i just opened the whole thing up and tried to fix it but it’s just busted. i think the data is recoverable, but it might cost a bunch of money… ugh. i hate this. i need to get my other one from college recovered as well.
i guess the best thing to do would be to order that one from amazon to your house, and you can send it over with dustin when he goes/comes in june. i’m thinking about buying two of those MyPassport ones… both 500GB… maybe that way you can have my two hard drives recovered (or i can do it when i get home) and put onto one of them, and you can send the other with dustin to me. also for the future since having one backup is apparently not enough, i can have two.
this just annoys me because i bought the external to be a safe backup of my computer just in case, and now it’s broken… and i got it for my birthday last year. I also voided the warranty while i was opening it up, so whatever. I just need to get the data recovered i guess.
i also threw my back out this weekend. i didn’t really realize it until this morning when i started walking around. this happens every so often in my lower back where I tweak it somehow and it doesn’t hurt too bad when i’m lying down or walking upright with my body straight, and it doesn’t hurt too much when i’m sitting down with my body bent, BUT when i move between bent at the waist and straight (getting up from a chair, or sitting into a chair after standing/walking or lying down, it hurts almost unbearably. it’s in my lower back on the right side. this happens to me every so often and i could feel it coming on after playing volleyball on friday night and i think it would’ve been fine if i hadn’t have hiked, cliff jumped, canoed, etc at the lake the following two days. this usually just takes stretching and time to make it go away. i should be fine by wednesday or so.
pray for me.”
So there you have it. A Mulungushi Weekend, or A Weekend of Ups and Downs… However you want to see it.
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