Fort Portal Weekend!

Our group (plus an Aussie friend) went to Fort Portal on the Friday and Saturday of Easter weekend. This town is about an hour and a half away from Kasese and is cooler due to it's high altitude. We went for three important reasons: Hiking, crater lakes, and pizza.

Fort Portal actually has a pizza place called Pier Pizzeria. The food was amazing! We actually ended up eating there on our way in to town and again on our way out. We got to introduce Edson to pizza for the first time which made it even more fun. The first time we ate there was on Good Friday. While we waited for our food we saw the following outside the window...

The mass of people continues all the way down the street. I thought my grandparents especially would be interested in these pictures. (Love you grandma and grandpa!) These people walked here from the neighboring country side carrying their crosses to be a part of this precession.

After pizza we continued to the community camp where we would be spending the night. That evening we did a hike to a place called "Top of the World" where, as you can imagine, the views were amazing.

The next day we did a challenging hike to a waterfall. I would like to think that my personal trainer would have been proud that I made it back up the very steep wall of the valley. The waterfall was gorgeous and we had fun playing in it. The only slip up was when our friend slipped and fell face first into the water... with her expensive camera around her neck. Don't worry, after a week in a bag of dry rice the camera is fine. Our friend made it out with only a bruised ego ;)

Throughout the entire weekend there were of course many many monkeys...

Yeah I know my socks are awesome. I didn't bring long enough pants for our hike so Edson gave me these soccer socks to wear.