Thursday, September 26, 2013: A Trip to the Guyana Zoo

Today was another hot day, in fact one of the hottest days since we arrived in Guyana. We decided to go into Georgetown, do some grocery shopping at Nigels grocery store to pick up some needed spices for home (Spence, we picked you up a few spices as well), along with Roti flour (Dan you get to be our guinea pig for curry and roti), and also the ingredients for a breakfast casserole that Tammy is going to make for the Caines. At this grocery store they had a lot of American made products, such as Oscar Meyer, Johnsonville Sausage, Crisco, Pam cooking spray, Vlasic pickles, and more. We were going to buy the Johnsonville Italian sausage for the casserole, but it was $3000 Guyana dollars...this is $15 US dollars...I said...hmmm, perhaps there is something else we can use.

After we finished shopping, we headed to the Guyana Zoo. On the way we passed a monument that was raised in 1976 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Guyana Independence. The statue is of a slave named Cuffy who, in 1763 led a rebellion against the Dutch.

This was my 4th trip to the Guyana Zoo but it was Tammy's first. They have made some changes since I was here in 2010. The lion is no longer there and neither is the black panther nor the leopard that tried to attack us when we were here in 2010 (I say attack but he really didn't if not for the fence in between the panther and myself). Anyway, here are a few shots of the zoo....oh, Lizzy, Tammy and I were able to shake hands with a monkey!

Check out this video of Tammy shaking hands with a monkey, pretty cute....

On the way to lunch, we passed by the President's Office building (see pic below)

We stopped at White Castle for some Fish and Chips on the way home. This is becoming more of a tradition for me than anything else as I have been to this place on every trip to Guyana.

This evening Tammy did her women's ministry. Foster and I were suppose to meet with a young man to do some counseling, but he never showed up. Anyway...here is Tammy writing her own words...

Tonight was a great night with the women that attended the women's prayer meeting at Shekinah Worship Center.  We started off the night with singing praise and prayer lead by Marie  Caines, then opened the floor up for testimony.  There were several ladies that shared, and as the shared there was a common theme to their testimonies, trust in God.  The awesome thing about it was that trusting God was the topic that I was sharing with them this evening.  It made me smile, I love when God does something like that!

 During our stay here over the last few days, Tammy and I have apparently made a couple of new friends. Jaleel and Ethan seem to gravitate toward Tammy and I. Jaleel really likes Tammy, I'm hoping that it's more than her phone. Ethan is always wanting me to hold him, carry him, etc. Check out our new friends (by the way, they are both the grandchildren of Foster and Marie)....