To the farm and the falls we go

This past week Manny and I headed up to the farm. Certainly not quite like a farm I am
used to, no big red barns, or hay rides and so on. But a farm nonetheless. There is a family from
the US, who live about an hour's drive north of us here in Nati. They are with an organization
called Ministry of Jesus. They currently are leading and developing an agricultural and Bible
school. It is a nice 100 acre place. Their names are Matt and Sarah and they have three
wonderful little children, two sons, 7 and 5, and a daughter around 2, I think, Riley, Duncan,
and Bridgette. It was a real nice break to be up there, enjoy the quiet and tranquility. We also
had a project we wanted to do. After seeing pics from our initiation Matt was really
impressed and wanted to set up a more permanent course at the farm that he could use
for the students that come throught the school. We also then could use it for our initiations, since
it will be set up all the time and on private property. So we set out and in the end our dreaming
ended up very big! We are going to try to some low ropes elements, and maybe a big zipline, as
well some other challenges like a rope swing, rope web, and trust fall. Lots of fun. We marked it all
out and sometime this month I'll go up again to work out more details. They have one half of the farm
dedicated to animals, cows, chickens, goats, etc. and the other half for crops, rice, corn, wheat, etc.
We are setting up most of our things on the cow side, it their pasture, it's not open pastur as you might
be imagining, but loose forest. After a few days there Uli, Suzy, and Toussaint came up and we all went
to the waterfalls another hour's drive north, call Tanagou falls (pronounced Tan-a-goo). It is really nice
and we glad to be there. There are three falls, but the last is the biggest, with a huge pool for swimming
and some places to jump, not too high, but fun! We had lots of fun climbing, swimming, jumping, and
just sitting about.