December 15, 2010
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over the channel…
…of mozambique brings me and my new bride to madagascar for not 12, but 28 days of Malagasy Christmas with family–me being geoff, youngest brother of joc, with new bride, brielle (formally beaudin).
My wife and i are spending 7 months volunteering in South Africa, and are ‘vacationing’ to another amazing African country, just over the mozambique channel, for a month. What makes this particular skip and a jump over to Mada so awesome is that my entire immediate family will also be there for Christmas!Brielle and i are on day four in Madagascar, we arrived last of the 3 family couples at midnight on the 11th (AirMad delayed and re-routed our flight. merci airmad). After finally arriving, sharing a few stories of the last few months, we had a short night before we were off the the rain forest. Deeep in the forest, a 4 hour drive east from Tana, we found ourselves in a pristine location to spend our first 2 days with our long lost family. Pool swimming, lemurs, good food, cheap beers (cheaper even than S.A.), and the highest tree climb ive ever done high above the rain forest canopy (ca.60-80feet up) were some of the highlights of the trip. Not to mention it was all with family that we havnt seen in 2 (mom, dad, eric, lara)and 11 months(josh, joc, judah, asher).
With those activities behind us already, im looking forward to ile saint marie this week end; snorkeling, fishing, relaxing, then exploring tana, tennis, markets, taking my wife out for a 5 star day on her bday on the 31st. And then, for all the extra fun stuff we have planned for after the rest of the family goes back Canada’ward a week and a half before Brielle and i leave. heh heh. we’ll see.geoff.
