Things we learned in Rwanda

As we sit at the airport, waiting to carry our numerous bags through security . . . we thought we would give you a list of things we learned in Rwanda!

* It is possible to live on beans and rice and rice and beans . . . for more than two months.

* No matter how much (or hard) you scrub, the red dirt never comes off.

* Don't eat the cake!!

* Nearly two and one half dozen people can fit in a VW mini van (bench seats and a myriad of bags, boxes and sometimes live stock are included) and it can still drive 60 mph.

* It is legal to paste political posters on every inch of your vehicle, including the front, back and side windows.

* Just because the road is made for two lanes of traffic, does not mean that four lanes will not fit! with two additional lanes of motos.

* It rains avocados everyday.

* There is no set thing as a "set price", especially for white people.

* Moto-driver cannot only drive. They can drive, talk on the phone AND then TEXT on their second phone!!!!

* No matter how big the dare, don't touch the pele-pele sauce.

* It is possible to stack ten flats of boiled eggs (10 eggs by 10 eggs in size) on the back of a bike and make it up and down the Rwandan hills, in traffic.

* Anything can be carried on top of ones head; a mattress, a suitcase, a bed, multiple jerry cans, hundreds of bananas, four cases of beer, a bike

* Anything can be carried on a bike; twenty to thirty chickens (upside down), a goat in a basket, eggs, water , milk cans (up to 5 big ones), numbers of people, mattresses, a bike,

* The American Embassy is only open to Americans on Tuesday!

* We can't wait to return!