Packing Limbs

It's a little less than 8 weeks until we head across the world!  A couple weeks ago, we began collecting things from the request lists of the McCropders as well as other missionaries in Burundi.  For our family of six, we are allotted 12 checked bags.  We are planning four of those to be suitcases for ourselves (clothes, etc), and the remaining eight to be large plastic bins of everything from duct tape to school books to cinnamon. 

Here is Hank adding the newest arrival to the growing mountain in the corner of our bedroom.  When Jason (the surgeon) asked Hank if we could bring these external fixators, he added something like this:  "If you can't, we can have them sent in the next shipping container, which will come in 6 months or something.  It would be great if you can, though, so I don't have to do so many amputations."