Have a cow!

My daughter arrived safe and sound Sunday night and we enjoyed a yummy fish dinner (caught by my hubbie on Lake Norman) on Sunday with my family.  She has been telling us about her trip to Kenya and the safari and it has been very interesting.  The funniest thing to me was her visit to a neighboring village.  One of the medical school students she was working with (he has been in the US for about 10 years and is serving in our military having received his citizenship) took her and another colleague  to visit his family for the weekend.  She said they were treated like royalty and there were a bunch of kids there from all over the village mainly to see the white people!!   I asked her if she had been able to take them a gift or something for their hospitality.  After they left, the following week she asked what they could do to thank the family – her thoughts were to buy a goat for the family.  Dan told her his grandmother didn’t like goat so much, so she decided to buy her a cow!!  The next time Dan went to his village, he stopped at the market and purchased a cow …. a WHITE cow …. and took it home to his family.  He told Ashley that his family would be talking about that gift (and visit) for quite some time!!   Keep that in mind the next time you don’t know what to buy for someone!!