Friday and Saturday

The last couple of days have been busy ones. On Friday we had some down time. In the morning we went to the giraffe park and had some feeding the giraffes and shopping a little. We spent the afternoon shopping and negotiating in the market (which is far more exhausting to me than VBS and the medical clinic!) Friday night we went to the Carnivore, a famous Nairobi restaurant with a circular grill about 15 feet across! Needless to say, we’ve been well fed.

Saturday we went with 55 orphans to “Rock City Amusement Park.” It had something of the look of a place where amusement park rides have retired. (They were welding on at least one of the rides when we arrived!) The kids enjoyed it, though, and Rock City had a very nice pool. It was a little chilly for us—only Shawn, Janae, and Earl swam—but the kids loved it. Last night we went to the Java House, a good restaurant and coffee house that serves a mean bacon cheese-burger. I was at a table with our Kenya bus driver, and we noticed an entourage of 5 black Mercedes pull up, with several men in suits going into the restaurant. Our driver said, “Oh, that is the Vice President of Kenya!” We thought that was neat, so I went over to the other tables with our team members and pointed him out. The next time I looked up Janae was over chatting with him and getting her picture taken with him!

Today we are headed to the game park, and we’re looking forward to heading home tomorrow night.

Blessings,
Jeff