Another Saturday in Arusha

February 27th was a beautiful Saturday with bright, clear skies (definitely not a guarantee this time of year, as rainy season is getting started).  The picture above is looking down my road from my front gate.  I went to Arusha with Beth and Emmy to run errands and do some shopping.  Emmy got a lollipop at one point as we were running errands downtown.  She loves to see if they will turn her tongue different colors, and this one definitely did!  I took a photo so she could see it since we didn't have a mirror.  I told her that now her tongue matches her dress. 

I needed to get new keys made for the school library and a few others things, so I spent a while waiting at a roadside key fundi waiting for them.  This is one of the main roads downtown, a block or so over from the main market.  

While shopping downtown, Emmy found these giant tulle bows on a head band, and Beth let her get one.  She enjoyed looking like Minnie Mouse in such a big bow! I got this photo of her when we finally stopped to eat something-between-lunch-and-dinner at AIM mall after we finished our errands for the day.  

One the way home, we turned onto the Monduli road at just the right time of day (between about 5:30 and 6:30 in the afternoon) and it was a clear enough day that we could see Mt. Kilimanjaro briefly beyond Mt. Meru before we went far enough that Meru blocks our view.  Only on the clearest days is Kilimanjaro visible this far away--nearly 100 miles away.  It's hard to see in pictures, but if you look to the bottom right of Mt. Mery, just between the mountain and that biggest bush, you can see the snowy peak in the distance. 

While it's not the dramatic shape of Meru or Kilimanjaro, I think our Monduli Mountain is beautiful, too, especially in the afternoon light as we drive home.