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| We had a six hour bus ride from Nairobi to Karicho, but there was a mix-up and we went an hour out of our way. Greg ('dad') was waiting to drive us to Litein when we arrived, so we kept him waiting for awhile, but he simply stayed with Mary Rose ('mom') at the Tea Hotel. She was pretty sick with a stomach bug. When we got to the right place, he introduced himself by saying "just call me dad; that's what everybody calls me." This picture is a section of road where there's not really a guardrail, and we were up pretty high, so I was a little nervous at first (just because there aren't a lot of speed limits/traffic signs in Kenya, so the ride was quite an adventure. I took several short naps on the way, and we also saw herds of sheep, goats, donkeys an cows; and even a few zebras and impalas/ gazelles. |
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| Mallory holding Faith Ann <3 |
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| One of the classrooms. |
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| Courtney and I stayed up late inventing chocolate and vanilla cakes for the birthday celebration, which we had yesterday. Hannah, Greg and Mary's youngest girl, is hiding behind me. She really loves sprinkles, and she's such a good helper, so she helped decorate the cake(s). The icing was tricky: we didn't have a mixer, shortening, or corn syrup; but we used Somo (vegetable fat), a little butter, cocoa, -we did have powdered sugar-, vanilla extract, and a little evaporated milk to make chocolate frosting. -and then we made another batch with a cherry drink mix packet instead of cocoa to make pink icing, too. |
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| This is the most American birthday cake you'll ever see in Africa. |
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| Me with Sheila <3 |
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| Stirring the Ugali. |
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| Mallory stirring the Ugali ;) |
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| This is Kathleen (isn't she adorable?) she has a crazy hairdo, but the sweetest face: and she was even looking at the camera! :) |
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