Don’t want to get all mooshy gooshy (rhymie stymie!). Here is a list of all the little stuff I miss from back in the states.
Not on the list? Don’t be sad…Theo didn’t even make the list and he’s littler than you!
Real Ketchup - Peptang just doesn’t cut it.
Roads - we may have a few pot [...]
We went to a Korean restaurant yesterday with the Russells. It was very good with endless amounts of food. I ate so much! It was really yummy!
While we were at the restaurant we found a huge turtle.
Punda Milia = Donkey with stripes
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Ok, no tigers OR bears here, in fact, NO one knew the Kiswahili name for bear, since they have no bears here! Laz had to look it up for me. He called his brother who teaches Swahili. He didn’t know the name for a bear. Alrightey then!
This was what [...]
Now that we are living in Nairobi for a time, it is safe to write about what we learned about our large friends (?), the elephants, without freaking anyone out. The Russells lived on a hillside and would talk of the elephants roaming around in the hills at nite, behind their house. I’m pretty sure [...]
It’s been five years since I have been here in Kenya. There is no doubt a price to be paid for that. We hope we will discover what it is.
It’s amazing to me we have been gone for a week already. I fully anticipate that things are probably falling apart in our real estate business [...]
One thing you don’t do near the Masai Mara is go outside the fenced area after the sun sets. There are just too many predators. So girls night out was actually girls afternoon. They took ATVs down to a Masai village and got the complete tourist treatment.
This includes dancing, chanting, a tour of the [...]
Yes it IS true. I AM surviving without my cell phone. Actually,I havn’t been bored once here. I’ve loved every minute of it.
We went to the Maasai Mara from Friday to Tuesday. We stayed with the Russells. A missionary family who has lived here for 12 years. It was nice to finally meet them after [...]