Rwanda Adventure - Day 1

Our team of 10 is together!  We spent Saturday shuttling to the airport picking up team members and getting to know one another.  We have one student from Colorado, one from Oklahoma and four from Texas.  These students are AMAZING!  They have such great hearts and are very excited for the trip.  One one has never left the country before, so they are all prepared are ready to go.

We spent today in Washington DC before we fly out in the morning.  We visited the National Holocaust Memorial and Museum, enjoyed time on the mall and were very excited about the dress rehearsal for the 4th of July celebration concert.  Some of the musicians performing were Jordin Sparks (former Kivu camper) and Josh Groban!  The Holocaust Museum was incredible.  By far it had the best exhibits of any museum I have ever visited.  Truly thought provoking.  We especially appreciated the exhibit all about the Rwandan genocide.  After leaving there we enjoyed free time on the mall before meeting to go to the eat dinner before the concert.  We found a great little restaurant called the Austin Grill that was totally Austin!  So fun!  While we were eating, however, the sky totally fell!  Torrential rain and high winds left broken branches from trees all over the mall.  Unfortunately that meant no concert (major disappointment) and a very LONG bus ride back to the airport before we could shuttle back to the hotel...  We sure enjoyed bonding as a group and had a nice visit with an Egyptian man on our bus.

Tomorrow we land in Kigali!