Jinja

This past weekend some friends and I piled into taxi vans and set off for Jinja. Jinja is only 200 miles away, but because this is Uganda our journey took from 8:45 in the morning until 5:30 in the evening. We made it though, with shared headphones, and an unfortunate chicken hanging off the roof of the taxi, and the journey was well worth it. 

Did you know that the source of the Nile is in Uganda? In Jinja to be precise. So our long weekend was spent overlooking the Nile, which would have been beautiful if the Nile had just been a regular river, but because it's the Nile it was just infinitely cooler.

We basically spent the weekend laying around by the pool or in the pool, eating, reading, and exploring a little bit of Jinja. It was the perfect little relaxing getaway. 

This poor chicken kept coming loose from the top of our taxi, and just dangling from the roof carrier. It was pitiful, also something I'm pretty sure only happens in places like Uganda. 

There were so many of these little monkeys running around the camp where we stayed. They are harmless, and because no one seems to know their actual name most people just call them "Blue Ball Monkeys", because well...they have blue balls. 

I could not get over how beautiful sunset over the river was. What a beautiful world God made for us!