home again home again

Well, we are back at the Methodist Guest House. We had a good dinner tonight....spaghetti! :-) My favorite.

We went on our last safari this morning. But first let me tell you about night last evening. We were getting ready to go on our evening safari when I heard all this hooping and hollering up the way. I get up there and one tent has been "broken into" by the monkeys. They stole George's candy bar and scattered peanuts everywhere. Hey guys, I bet you won't leave your tent unzipped again! Right outside on our porches we have seen baboons, elephants and monkeys. Our meals are guarded by the Maasai warrior so the birds and monkeys would leave us alone while we ate under the shade of bamboo and fig trees. I have to say mty only complaint was that the beds were as hard as cement.

We all really needed this weekend to process all that we had seen last week. We feel refreshed and energized to head back to the school tomorrow. I'll be taking around 60 preschoolers to the animal orphanage with Bethany, Megan, Miriam, Mama Carroll and Bwana Brown (Wayne) and George. After we get back, we will start with tennis lessons.

This weekend was amazing. We were still surrounded by thoughts and concerns of the mercy care centre. We talked a lot about this coming week and trying to accomplish as much as possible. We were on the way back to Nairobi when we stopped at a filling station. There was a young boy probably a bit older than Gabe who was begging for us to give him something. Well, Patrick, the principal of the school, was with us and he gave the little boy a lecture on begging and going to school. So, our response to the little boy every time he wanted money was that we could not because he had missed school. He really did not know how to act.

I got to talk to David and the boys tonight. It was great to see then on video. I miss them terribly!


Will try to post more pics tomorrow night.

Good night. ~toni