Tuesday, October 28th - On to Nairobi

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Today was another long day, but I’ll try to keep it short (for once)! We left Kisii this morning at 9:00am for our return trip to Nairobi. We took the same route was had on the way here a week ago and reminisced about where we ate lunch at the Tea Hotel, where we had our flat tire and more. We passed though Kenya national forests, where both softwood trees are planted for later harvesting. We saw tea fields as far as the eye could see, with hundreds of workers out picking the tea leaves. From time to time we would see a big compound with many, many houses side by side which served as the housing for the tea farm workers. It was incredible to see how many people there were working in this profession!

For lunch we stopped in Nakuru and ate at a place called the "Tangerine." It was like a fast food place in the states, with pizza and burgers. Russ and I ordered beef burgers, Bruce ordered a chicken burger and Charles had an African dish. I think we were all happy! The beef burger wasn’t quite like at home, but it was the first beef burger I’ve had since getting to Africa, and it was a nice change, so I’m not complaining! As we were pulling off the road for lunch we noticed a popping sound coming from the driver’s side front tire and determined that the CV joint was going bad. That will have to be fixed either tonight or tomorrow morning before we leaved for Arusha!

From Nakuru it was another four hours back to Nairobi and we arrived at around 5:30pm. We received a warm greeting from our friends at the Hotel Southern Blue when we arrived. The people here are great, and we have really enjoyed their hospitality and friendliness.

Picture of the better bathroom facilities at the Hotel Southern Blue.

After checking in we made a trip down the street to say "hi" to our friend Hadessa (Esther) and to check e-mail. Then we met up with Charles and Pastor Simon from Mombasa who was on his way home after meeting with some of the other pastors for their monthly conference. Simon was running it in Charles’ absence. After that it was a late supper and some visiting about the coming trip to Tanzania.

We thank the Lord for bringing us safely this far, and pray for His continued blessings on the remainder of our trip, and all the work here. To God alone be the glory.

In Him,

Nathanael