Plumbing!!!

So as I wrote my blog the other day, I realized that I left out critical information about my Thursday's experiences. We found out the hard way that there is a lot of fake stuff out here in Uganda.

Grayson was in the bathroom and I guess he got bored. So he decided to poke one of the flex tubing going to the sink. Immediately it sprung a leak. Now to picture this think of a cartoon. We tried to get it to stop, but nothing worked. Pastor Dongo told us that people make fake stuff all the time that ends up breaking soon after installation. Apparently that was the case this time. He said we would fix it in all his Ugandan sense of urgency...meaning none.

So we put a tub underneath it and moved on...well, not really, about a half hour later I went in to try to stop the leak again. Upon doing that, I completely broke off the tubing and water began to shoot out of the wall (remember think cartoon or movie). I yelled for Grayson. Luckily he heard me and ran for help. However, the bathroom began to flood with water. Finally help came, but they had to get a ladder to get up in the attic to shut the water off. By the time the water got shut off, the bathroom and living room area were flooded with water exiting the front door. Not very fun, but an interesting experience nonetheless.

Moral - be careful what you buy in Uganda