Doing the Dishes at Our House

Life here is great. We have hot water in the shower!!! Woo hoo!! But we don't have hot water anywhere else, so doing the dishes is a bit more effort than back home. I thought I would like to share the process with you. Of course, we have a maid who does our dishes Monday - Friday during the day, but we still have to do them every night AND on the weekends - I know, feel sorry for us...

So, here's how it works:

First we have two bowls. One for the soapy water and one for rinsing.


Then we heat the water up in our electric kettle.


Then we pour the water into our "wash bowl",


and mix it with cold water so we can put our hands in.


Also, we have really nice dish soap called Axiom - it's Grapefruit scented - but isn't nice and strong like what we have in the States - also is NOT really a grease cutter like at home... Meaning, sometimes we wash things twice... or say "what the heck! TIA (this is Africa!)
And here's where we rinse and drain.



Come on over! The great news is if you COOK, you don't have to wash, so bring some of your favorite recipes and we'll see you at the airport!