Replacing a broken pipe!

Who would have thought replacing a pipe was so much work and tiring. I guess i learnt it friday. It all started when I returned home with Rashidah and the nanny. I noticed that the marl outside the house was wet and all around as if though it had rained. Further inspection made me realize that water was all on the side of the house running all the way to the back, which led to the conclusion that somewhere along the way a pipe had broke and been spilling water all night long while we slept.
I dreaded the thought having to dig a drain so the water can run away from the pipes the having to replace the pipes under the blazing sun hot. Anyways..had to do what had to be done or else i would have to pull a sasquatch move, " no shower for a day or two" until the pipes were fixed. hahaha.
So i started digging and dug some more . I guess after two and half hours this is what i ended up with:
As you all can see it wasn't a lot of digging but hey the ground was kinda hard...a lot of stones...it did go a lilttle deep. I started digging at about 9:30 and took a break @ 11:30 cuz i was drenched in sweat and real tired cuz the sun was hitting. I know u see a shade that is because i took the picture till late in the evening for i thought Helwa had the camera with her. But anyways... i guess these are the things the people from BWS do on a regular and we don't even realize the amount of work they do. Besides they have the correct tools to do the job unlike me I had to adapt and use whatever i could have...lol..even Rashidah's sand castle tools...lol It really came in handy because if i had to use the big shovel that would mean i had dig lot more in order to get the shovel to pick up the dirt around the pipe
However as you can see I made good with what she had along with the tools i had and worked out perfect. Don't mind it tooke me a little longer but i got the pipe area cleared out enough for me to start cutting and stuff..
Ok so now that i had finished digging and water flowed through the drain i had dug. I waited a lil until all was almost gone...then i started contemplating as to how or where i should cut due to the joints the plumber had placed on it..made it difficult to only try to replace that joint. Thus I had to cut the entire joining area and do it over again.
note in the pic that the joint where it was broken was interlocking with the other two joining areas leaving me with no space to replace just that single joint. so i came up withe plan to cut off the entire thing and just make the same joints. Little did i know that joining the pipes away from the area made the one's i did not coincide with the way the others were set. Even worse i had already glued the parts together. It was depressing and funny at the same time... So now i had to cut the new joints i had just bought and replace a couple of them because they weren't lining up with the pipes already there. So now i had to go to the store again and buy 2 more joints and 2 3/4 elbows. Now that it was kinda messed up i had to come up with a way to make it go around using the elbows and joints for it to line up with the original position of the pipes. As a result this is what i ended up with:
I guess in a way I learnt that when replacing a pipe ensure that whatever you glueing is to the original pipes already layed out and not away from the work site. hehe...and if I can't do it..then get someone qualified to do it. I just hope it holds and i don't have to go back and be fixing anything..until next time...this was the tale of a broken pipe...ghehehe