Our Last Days In Lusaka.

Donald and Katie at a shopping place in Lusaka. Take note of all the rubbish that is behind them!

Well after our time at the Protea Hotel we went back to the Kilimanjaro Lodge and spent the rest of our time there.

Anne (the owner) is wonderful! She is so willing to help us in whatever we need. If any of you are ever in Lusaka I would suggest you stay here at the Kilimanjaro Lodge! It is a peaceful, quiet and lovely place to stay.

We went and saw some more souvenir places and also met with Billy and Jenny Fuller and their son and his family for dinner - a Chinese restaurant which was wonderful.

The next day we tried to contact my family in Australia but it just wouldn’t work. We went back to town to put some diesel in the truck before we took it to where it needed to be for the next people.

Well.... Donald did a ‘u’ turn so that we could get to the petrol station. There was this little white car that pulled up behind us and this lady in the back seat kept looking at us. Donald hadn’t noticed her as he was dealing with the people filling our car. Eventually she got out of the car and came to the driver’s side of the car and asked me what we were doing here. I was a bit confused as to why she was asking me and I told her that we had just come from Samfya. It turned out that she was a police woman – well that is what she told us. She had no police identification or uniform, she only had a piece of paper for a ticket and a police hat! Well she told me that Donald had made an illegal ‘u’ turn and she considered what he had done to be very dangerous. She said that they had been patrolling the area and have caught him. Donald asked her how he was supposed to know that he wasn’t allowed to do a ‘u’ turn when there were no signs to say so, and that all the vehicles were stopped and actually jammed so they couldn’t move and that was why he made the turn. . She then looked at me and said that there had been an accident there before and so there wasn’t a sign!! Ummm how were we supposed to know that you weren’t allowed to Donald told her! She said it didn’t matter and she was still going to issue him with a fine! By now she is sitting in our car and said that the fine would be K270,000. Donald had to go and pay for the diesel and she asked me what Donald’s job was. I told her that he was a Bible Teacher at Samfya Bible School and that in our country he was a pastor. Her face and attitude changed when she heard that. ! She told us that her senior officer was here too. We couldn’t see him anywhere so Donald asked to see him. As soon as she heard that she backed off and asked Donald if he was sorry. Donald said that he was IF he had actually committed an offense so she said that because he was sorry she would not give him the fine! She said it was good just to forgive people sometimes! We think it was actually a scam rather than her being an official police officer!!! Just as well Donald has had enough experience in Zambia. This was the 5^th time in 3 months he had been pulled over.

Next Donald dropped Katie and I off at Arcades Mall and he went to drop the car off and was going to catch a taxi back. Before long he was back (he had actually hitch hiked!). We wondered what we were going to do to fill in the rest of the day. Katie suggested we go and watch a movie which we did. While in there I asked Donald if he remembered to get the camera out of the car which he had put under the driver’s seat. Oh dear!!! After the movie we had our final ‘Food Fayre’ ice cream and the driver from the lodge was there to pick us up to take us back to the lodge. Donald asked him if we could go back to the car to get our camera. YAY he said that would not be a problem. Thankfully the camera was still there.

Things went well back at the lodge and we also had our dinner there which was really great. We got our bags sorted and off to bed. We have to be up at 5am as our plane leaves at 6am!

That was our last day in Zambia.