People, street scenes, randoms

Across the street from a gas station sort of in the middle of nowhere. Kids selling stuff. We gave them some bread.

Lady and baby. Love this pic.

OK, this is us obviously- at the Chinese restaurant in Lubango! It was, for me, the best meal of the whole trip by far! I got to speak some Mandarin which was fun, and I got some veggies cooked in true Chinese style, which I haven't had since leaving Shanghai. The eggplant was so good we ordered two. Oh man was it good.

Kids on the street in Tumbwa. One thing that we noticed repeatedly was that these kids all take care of each other. We watched this group of kids for a long time, and these two held hand and walked around together the whole time.

See, I told you. :)

These little girls were so cute. They were eating toothpaste. She even has it smeared on her face, you see?

We saw a lot of kids on "bikes" like these.

At a gas station- we attracted a lot of attention where ever we went. We handed out bread and bananas and candy and water and toys all along the way. It's not much, but the light in their eyes was amazing.

A street market.

We gave these kids a whole bag of apples. It looked like this might have been an orphanage.

In Lubango we discovered that kids have to bring their own chairs to school- hence this scene.

They don't have a lot of toys, so they play with whatever is around, including rusted out old vans.

Different kind of kids! :) Did I mention before that there were goats and cows all over every where we went? There were.

A shot of Sumbe I think. Very typical look of a town.

A car in Benguela.

One of ours. Just funny. :)

Ladies selling stuff by the roadside in Namibe. I caught the eye of the little girl with the beer bottle, and I waved at her. Almost until we drove away she just kept staring at me and waving.

Market in Lubango (this is by the way, what the market I shop at on weekends looks like as well. People just sit on the street side- sometimes they have makeshift tables, sometimes not).

Buying bananas

Oh, those same kids going to school again. :)

This was the bar where we met the farm guy (see his tractor in the background?). We gave the kids in this picture candy and balloons.

They didn't really know what to do with the balloon at first, and when one popped, the little one almost cried. We gave him another.

They were shy, and tried to run away to play with their new stuff.

Lobito market.

same

Something burning somewhere. Lady with stuff on her head.

These people were some of the first we came across on our trip. We gave the kid a piece of candy, and one of the drivers gave him a Coke. I felt so bad for him after that because he sucked down both SO fast- I just knew that sooner than later, he would probably have the worst stomach ache!

Lady with oh so cute baby. One thing that we couldn't help but notice was the state of the breasts of the women in the countryside. For one thing, there were just lots of them that weren't wearing shirts at all, which, well, we're just not used to are we! This lady did have a shirt but, it was mesh, so you could see her long, flat as a pancake breasts through it. We girls reasoned that it's a combination of never wearing a bar, plus nursing lots of babies, topped with the way they always have something tied over their breasts, literally flattening them down. If you look closely, you can see that this young woman's breasts look more like that of a really old western woman's.