This is MacNary who narrates our new show Dancing Around Zambia. He plays a bus driver who takes tourists on an imaginery trip around Zambia to visit the various tribes and experience their songs and dances and ceremonies. It is such a great show.

My schedule for blogging is way off this week and the bonus blog I posted earlier actually just became a replacement for the one I missed last Sunday. Egad, it’s Friday already.We have had a lot happen this past week. We are now performing our second show, “Dancing Around Zambia” at the resort on Saturdays and Mondays. Starting Sept 4, we will be doing ‘African Shoes’ at the Capitol Theatre on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.This Sunday will be our last Sunday Night Jam as we are now performing our shows 5 nights per week and everyone needs a day off. We will miss the fun we’ve had and Marilyn especially. She loves singing with the band. I am working on taking them into a recording studio. They have such an unique sound as they mix African rhythms with Western rock. I will also miss singing “Cover of the Rolling Stone” which is always requested. I took this picture below of myself at the end of the number.We went on a walking safari last Tuesday afternoon and it was nice to relax for a bit. Our friend Chinga is the guide and he took Marilyn and me for free and gave a discount to Rachel and Lucy. We also had a game warden along with his rifle which is a must in case any of the wild animals decide to attack. If you look closely at the picture below, you’ll see the giraffe staring back at me.At the end of our walk, we sat by the Zambezi River into the night and enjoyed some drinks, conversation, and laughter. We saw a white rhino and giraffes but the elephants and water buffalo alluded us. Chinga is a wealth of information though and we learned a lot about the vegetation and its medicinal properties as well as a lot about the eating and migrating habits of the animals. There is a fruit the elephants eat whole and when they poop it comes out as a hard pit which is collected, carved, and used as necklace material. Identifying animals by their poop is now part of our new knowledge.Last week we took Lucy and Rachel to Tjisse’s lodge where the boys performed in their home-made costumes. Lucy and Rachel went out and bought material and had really nice outfits made so the boys could look good when they perform for guests of Tjisse’s lodge. The four of us got dressed up in them before they were delivered and had a ‘pjama party’ of sorts.
We are really going to miss our volunteers when they leave on Sept 9th. They have been such a great help to us and have really bonded with our staff and friends in Livingstone. They are real sweathearts with just the right attitude to enjoy all the wonders of Africa. They travelled up from South Africa and are continuing on to a few other African countries before heading back to the UK but have already said it is the experience living here in Zambia that they will remember the most.