Boys Day Out

Today was one of my favourite days. I really get on with the group of older boys at the village (aged like 9-14) we always have loads of fun:

I decided it would be nice to take them out for the day as they don't get to go out that much. Taking one or two was just not going to happen, how can you pick and choose?! So I had to take the whole group of friends. This amounted to 12 boys haha!

So I asked if I could take them into town on Saturday and we went :)
It was such a fun day for me as well as them. They loved being out in Jinja. I stopped at a supermarket and told them they could choose an ice cream. You can see by Samuel's face they loved that.
Walking through the main street I got so many looks of confusion.

"Did you adopt them?" "Do you sponsor them?" "Are they taking your money?!"

I resorted to telling people they were all my biological children and grinning.

I also stopped at a shop to buy a football and told Steven to carry the bag. They didn't know why I'd bought it or what the plan even was.

I decided just going to a cafe with them wouldn't be as fun and the only thing I could think of in town that they would really enjoy was to take them to a playing field I know and set them free with the ball.

Obviously they loved that as football is their favourite pass time so we spent a few hours just chilling on the field, kicking the ball about, cartwheeling about, they DJ'd music from my speaker, and just had fun together.
Also cool that they all love taking photos on my camera because it means I don't have to do all the taking and can get some nice ones of me with them too, as not being here in a team or group, I thought that would be hard.

I saw really black clouds coming towards the field and thunder started and I was convinced
it would be another African storm where it isn't just light rain. I prayed for it to somehow swivel and go in the other direction haha and somehow the storm literally moved AROUND the field. Which was crazy because it was moving in the exact direction on us, yet bended so it didn't actually come over us in the end. Which was nice as we stayed dry and still had fun.

Then I treated them all to whatever soda they wanted at a restaurant, and then we walked a bit playing (and they were rapping to) music. Just a really nice day hanging out with them and getting to know them even better. :-) [Videos at bottom]

Josh!