Back to Santa Rosa, CA

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We had a wonderful progressive dinner on Friday the 29th of September in Seattle.  We went to 4 different houses in Wallingford neighborhood and enjoyed a home tour, history of the home and wonderful at each house along with 11 wonderful people to share it with.  Thank you to all the homeowners who donated the proceeds to Chidamoyo Hospital.

On the afternoon of the 30th of September we flew home from Seattle to my hometown of Santa Rosa, CA.  We arrived home to a wonderful sadza and oxtail dinner cooked by Sylvia Majoni-Brown.

We have spent the last week traveling and doing shopping--getting ready to go back to Zimbabwe.

Sunday morning we left with good friends and Chidamoyo board members, Patty and Gary LeDonne, for the final SF Giants baseball game of the season at ATT Park.  We enjoyed a fun game in beautiful weather and it was won in the bottom of the 9th by a home run from the Giants!  After the game they threw autographed balls into the seats and Patty got one for Major!  He was so excited!

After the game we went to meet up with our Stanford research team.  It was fun to meet with them on this side of the world and enjoyed a wonderful Chinese dinner out with Megan and Matt, Ben, Rachel, Dr. Katzenstein and Ben's wife.  It was great to catch up with everyone.  We spent the night in SF and then took the bus home the next morning.

We have been to Costco 2 times in 2 days and we are buying things to help us run the hospital better.  We also took things direct to the container which is just about ready to go--we are filling the rest up very quickly!

We also enjoyed seeing Great-nephew Maximo and his team playing soccer this week.

We are also enjoying eating out with friends and family.  I am trying not to put on weight and Major is trying to eat everything!  What a fun time we are having and feel so privilege to be here for a few weeks!

ATT Park

Gary and Major


Patty and Gary LeDonne with Major and Kathy


Stanford research team with us

 Taking things to container with Becksteads


 Great nephew Maximo playing goal keeper for soccer

 Major enjoying dinner

Dinner with the McCarty family

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