Awadh's Village - The saga continues

Hello everyone,

I hope that we’re not boring you with our pictures but we wanted to show you a few more shots of Awadh’s village. We went for another visit this past weekend and this time Ruth had a bilingual friend with her, which made for a better time all around.

We were able to take some pictures of the girls on this visit. They were so eager to pose for a picture and they’d all dressed up for the occasion-especially this little girl in pink. She’d braided her hair and donned her best dress.

And this my friends is the hottest kitchen in the world. I have no idea how they stand it, but the ladies cook rice and other dishes in this small stone building while the goat meat is roasted over coals outside.

As we mentioned before there is quite a good farm in the village (dates and limes mostly). They are quite adept at scrambling up the palms to snag the dates.

Thankfully they do have running water, but the pools in which it collects are green with algae; the water doesn’t even look fit for irrigation, but this is for drinking. And yet this is considered one of the “lucky” villages.

In closing, we'd like to introduce you to Mr. Leo-Gek (leopard + gecko ~he is spotted like a leopard) . This little guy was running around in the bushes.

One of the villagers caught him and was going to kill him because apparently the lizards "milk the goats", whatever that means!

Since then he has become the pet of a 12 year old boy (who was the one who named him by the way).

The last time we saw him he wasn't looking too good and very bloated so maybe Mr. Leo-Gek is actually a pregnant she. Yemeni Cricket isn't up on lizard anatomy: )