To Uganda on Umaganda

Susan's neice was in town for a long weekend, so we decided to take the opportunity to go to a little lake resort in Uganda for Sat and Sun. The Sat we left was the last Saturday of the month, which means it is Umaganda. Its a nation-wide community service day. You are not supposed to work or go anywhere but to your community service location for the entire morning. As a result we tried to leave by 7am so we could get out of Kigali before Umaganda started. We were a little late and got stopped and reprimanded on our way out of town. Opps. The cop let us go anyway. We explained we had a meeting outside of Kigali.
After a 3 hour drive and a 1 hour boarder crossing (stops on both the Rwanda side and the Uganda side for passports, car registration, paying for the car, stamping the forms, shuffling the forms, stamping them again), we arrived at the lake. It was a peaceful little tent camp on top of a hill with views overlooking Lake Bunyonyi. Bunyonyi means Place of Little Birds and it lives up to its namesake. Birds where flying all over the place singing lots of songs. So to the backdrop of a clear lake and the songs of birds, we began to relax over books, swings, lots of food and a long swim across the lake. It was really lovely and definitely on my list of future weekend visits!