Africa Mercy

Africa Mercy

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Wednesday 2-07-14, Hump day

Well we made it to the middle of the week, again. Everything is going really well, work wise and life wise.
We actually ventured out last night and hitched a ride to town to get some delicious ice cream at a nice shop on the boardwalk. Our friend Arie, from the Netherlands took us there. He is excited, I think, because his wife and daughter are arriving today for a short visit and we are scheduled to meet them Friday night for ice cream. They said they know us already from our blog. Amazing that one day I get an email for Arie's son saying they are following the blog back home..

We are closing up deck heads as the work is finishing slowly. The shipyard still has lots of work to do so we have to wait at times to follow them. Water interruptions continue but it is no big deal. We always manage to find a place to shower and clean up.

I was told this was a seven week project and we have been here almost 3 weeks and I looked and we have almost 6 more weeks to go,,,I guess it is the new math.

I went down into the forward hold and watched as they begin re-assembling the bow thrusters, and I have included some pictures.

Hope all is well back home with everyone,,,our wifi is down so we can't post immediately on our iphones and have to wait till work is over to get on the ship's computer...oh well, at least we have some communications.

Love
Ken and Peggy

                                            My favorite place

 One of 2 bow thruster motors, about the size of a smart car
 Refurbished thruster shafts
 Everything is heavy on a ship
 The crew, plus one Mercy Ship volunteer down in the hold
 Still working above the deck heads
 Another bow thruster shaft
 New piping being installed by the shipyard
 Looking down the shaft where the bow thrusters are, under the opening is the outside of the ship

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