Another Blessed Time

This weekend for Saturday and Sunday I had an opportunity to go with Wachira and 50 of the kids from his church to Naivasha for some fun time away.  It is about 1 ½ hours away.  We stared out at 8:00 and did not get there until 12:30.  Let’s just say that there was lots of stops that needed to be made along the way.  We would normally have the food we were taking purchased before we left.  In this case it was not so we had to make a few stops to pick up what we needed.  In Naivasha we stayed at a church.  Once we got there the kids unpacked there things and put them in the rooms they were sleeping in.  The girls slept in one big room and the boys in the other on the floor.  Wachira and myself were going to stay and a close by guest house for the night.  Once the kids were unpacked we headed to a local park that had a swimming pool for the kids to go swimming.  I was reminded again how much joy is brought to these kids with not much effort made.  We were at the pool for almost two hours.  Even though the kids were cold in the water the wanted to be swimming.  We headed back around 3:00 for lunch.  This consisted of Ugali (flour and water cooked), cabbage and some meat in broth.  I had a little Ugali with broth on it (gives it some taste) and some cabbage.  After lunch we went to the local market to purchase some sugar cain for the kids to have later.  I had never tried it before.  It was good but I thought it would taste sweeter than it did.  Once it was purchased we headed to Lake Naivasha.  It is a beautiful area that is surrounded by animals which included giraffes and wildebeests.   The kids went to see the lake and then we eat the sugar cain did some walking and then headed back to the church.  Supper still needed to be made.  As a treat they were making Chapatti for all the kids.  They wanted them to have two each which meant over one hundred needed to be made.   As you may remember from my other blog and the way they are made it is not a quick process.  So I joined the efforts in rolling them out.  It was good to help.  Myself and Wachira had something to eat around 8:30 as we need to be at the guest house by 9:00.  Along with the chapatti we had beans and cabbage.  Once we were done we head to the guest house for the night. 

On Sunday we were at church.  Frist was the English service and then the Kiswahili service.  It total I was in church from 9:00 to 2:00.  After church we had lunch (beans, cabbage and rice) and then headed home.  There was a bus and van that brought everyone.  On the way down I was in the bus but on the way home I was in the van.  We started off good.  Then when we were just coming into the first town we got a flat tire.  So it was changed and the spare was put on which was not a real tire.  Once that was done we carried on in hopes that the tire would make it.  We were going along smoothly when we heard something dragging.  We pulled over and took time to “fix” what was dragging.  Again we started driving in hopes that nothing else would go wrong.  As we got closer to home we saw that they had lots of rain.  When we turned on the road to PACE we discovered that it was flooded over.  So then a decision had to be made.  Do we try and take some back roads which would take longer and could be worse or do we try and drive through it.  I could see people walking through it and it was knee high.  They decided to drive through it.  I have some good video it.  We made it with little issue but I was not sure.  It was a good weekend and another experience that I will not forget especially as my time is drawing to an end in four weeks.