Thursday morning in Bomet

Yeah for sunshine in Florida!  Several people have told us about the sign at San Jose Baptist Church that says, "If you have been praying for rain, you can stop now."  We have been reading about all of the rain and have been worried.  We have also been seeing pictures and reading about the fires in Colorado Springs...tragic.  We are praying for Colorado and hope that they get needed rain.

I think that morning time in Kenya is my favorite.  We have no heat or air conditioning in our house so we can hear what is going on outside.  In the morning I hear the birds chirping and quacking.  I hear the rooster going on and on.  I hear the cows in the field in the front of our house and beside our house mooing.  Occasionally I hear Nala, the german shepherd a few doors up the hill from us, barking at something.  I catch myself staying snuggled in bed just so I can listen to the beautiful sounds.

I woke up quite early this morning.  Until today Ken has gotten up and headed out to the hospital before I have wakened up...yeah!  Ken and I sat and enjoyed a pot of coffee together.  He headed to the hospital and I started working on washing the few white articles of clothing that we brought.  I have to use rain water to wash the whites so I have been procrastinating.  Ken got one pot of rain water for me before he went to work.  I went back and forth and got two more.  Finally I took everything downstairs and rinsed it out in the rain water.  Now it is hanging on the line.  I now have a ban on wearing whites!  Socks get washed in the regular washing machine as they are always brown on the bottom anyway!

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The rains seem to start between 3 and 4 in the afternoon so everything sort of stops for us then.  Yesterday Ken got stuck at the hospital because of a deluge.  I think that he is really enjoying the people that he works with and the challenge of some of the things that he is having to do.  He is going to be on call again tonight; his last call while we are here.

We leave to go on our safari on Friday morning at 9 AM.  We are going to be at Masi Mara National Preserve.  We had the option of staying in a hotel or staying in tents.  We opted for the tents.  A family from Pittsburgh who is here working will be going with us.  The brought their 13 year old daughter.  It will be nice to have another family with us.  We had the option of taking a horseback safari.  Somehow sitting or a horse around a bunch of lions or being in the midst of a bunch of zebras stampeding did not appeal to us.  We would rather not be supper or trampled.  

Dr. and Mrs. B, if you happen to be reading this, please call on us whenever you need a vacation! We are so thoroughly enjoying our time here.  Thank you!