Mozambican Adventures of the Beilfuss family (Madison chapter)
11 May 2008
Happy Mothers' Day!
Rich and Ian made us a terrific Mothers' Day breakfast of french toast and improvised syrup (no maples to tap around here!) Ian decorated the table with grasses he and his dad had collected on their field expedition the previous day, and he set the table too. Oh, and I can't forget the crown he made for me, which I was obliged to wear for the rest of the day, even to the restaurant. (It wasn't Mothers' Day in Mozambique, so I had some explaining to do...)
Our family has moved back to Madison (we returned mid-August 2008) for a variety of reasons. While we are very sad to have left the Chitengo family we had come to love -- and the extraordinary natural resource, Gorongosa National Park -- we are very excited to be back in our old Jean Street neighborhood in Madison, and to be able to see and communicate with our friends and family more readily.
"A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambque" by William Finnegan.
"Drawn from the Plains: Life in the Wilds of Southern Africa", by Lynne Tinley, wife of the ecologist who documented the plants and animals at Gorongosa before the wars. Out of print but available through www.abebooks.com
"The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals" by Richard D. Estes
Rich and Ian made us a terrific Mothers' Day breakfast of french toast and improvised syrup (no maples to tap around here!) Ian decorated the table with grasses he and his dad had collected on their field expedition the previous day, and he set the table too. Oh, and I can't forget the crown he made for me, which I was obliged to wear for the rest of the day, even to the restaurant. (It wasn't Mothers' Day in Mozambique, so I had some explaining to do...)
