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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Update, Feb 8th


Good morning Kids!
Sorry we haven't written more but we keep very busy with jobs and the power is off at various times several times everyday--so it's hard to write often. But we think of you very often and wish you were all here with us!! You'd love the weather, the vegetation (flora) and the children. I am so glad to hear that you are keeping in touch with each other--warms my heart. We must admit, we have it nice. The plumbing and electricity is rough but very functional. We have a warm shower, clean towels and the laundry comes back folded --even the underwear. We are sleeping well on kind of hard beds with mosquito nets but neither have had back aches. Our frig is stocked with --yes, light coke! It's not the same as diet but close enough. We also have lots of fresh fruit mostly grown right here: tinysweet bananas, avocados and some type of clementine. We have sandwich meat, cheese, bread and even chips. Usually we eat with and what the children are eating but last night and today we won't. So I'm not sure if this mission diet is working. Somehow, I almost feel guilty about how nice it is!! But--they do keep us very busy. We both have projects and we both are teaching most the day. We play with the kids in the evening and walk around lots.

Our safari is planned for Feb 20 - 22 and Yeenlan (the lady in chargearound here) made all the arrangements. She was able to get us a flying safari which is suppose to be the nicest for less than we had thought we'd pay for a road safari. Flying safari means we fly to the Masai Mara, stayin a camp and then take road trips out at dawn and in evening. We haven't checked into the balloon ride yet.

Well our bus will be here shortly. We're going to church with 30 kids and their mama. Also two of the Americans are going and we'll stay in town with them and just check it out. We're glad to see what's on the other side of the wall. We love you all and really miss those babies so keep sending pictures and we'll plan a skype time soon.