Well this is a first for Shiloh!  A Cameroonian group reserved the whole house for their week long conference, starting from last evening.  Their people will simply sleep at Shiloh, while eating meals and participating in the conference elsewhere.  This happens all the time.  We're happy to accommodate their needs.

So there we were on Saturday and Sunday, busily cleaning Shiloh, filling water barrels in the middle of the night (we're still going through the water shortage phase of life) and getting everything in tip top shape for this group.  We even had to ask two guests to vacate their rooms early in order to give us time to do all these preparations.

Saturday afternoon two local people came to Shiloh to discuss the final plans, give a non-refundable deposit, and look at all the rooms in order to know whom to place where.  They promised that the younger of the two men would bring their guests over one by one as they arrived in town on Sunday evening.  They anticipated that the earliest ones would arrive at 7:30 p.m. and the latest ones would be at Shiloh by no later than 10 p.m.   

By 6:30 p.m. we were good to go.  The last of the last of the last minute things had been done.  Now to wait around for an hour for the doorbell to start ringing.  

So here we are, nearly 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon and we are still waiting for them to ring our doorbell!  The entire group is a no-show.  No doorbell ringing.  No phone ringing.  Nothing.  We've had numerous individuals change their plans without bothering to phone and cancel their reservation, but this is the very first time that an entire group just disappeared like that, without so much as a by your leave.  Amazing!