We're here, alive and safe

So far things have been good. Everyday we cross the Nile to get into town, its pretty amazing.  The people are nice... My friends Joe and Melissa are doing an amazing job of making sure I get acclimated and don't get hit by a car.  So far the only terrible things that have happened were 1. seeing a giant crane digging through a dumpster, it was about four or five feet tall and could have eaten a child should one be offered to it, and 2. stepping on a giant thorn in our back yard that went straight through my shoe and into my foot.  Other than that things are good, its hot, but we love it.  Everything is still very strange and new. The food is cheap and Tim has been eating a lot of it.  Tim and I  will be  going to the children's home I will be volunteering at on Monday. I hope everything is well at home!