Pizza

It is now school holidays here for 5 weeks. Pray that it will be a good holiday. There is so little to do here, that I find holidays quite challenging. This week the compound is completely empty. I am enjoying this very much, although I think the kids miss their friends. A new American family has moved in just a few minutes from our compound. this is very nice for Bethany, who having had rather a lonely school term, now has two new girls to play with. It is supposed to be winter here, but the temperatures are still quite high in the afternoons, so we can make it to the pool for a freezing swim.

Daniel is still carrying on with his dual role. He is OK, but is frustrated at not being able to do everything he would like in each job. There are just not enough hours in the day. There are a lot of changes happening in MAF Tanzania at the moment so please pray for Daniel as he tries to steer everyone in the right direction and that it will not get too much for him.

Caleb amused us at the weekend. We went out for pizza with some friends. We ordered a pizza for Joshua and Caleb to share, which they ate and then Caleb disappeared. I thought he had gone off to play in the play ground and a while later he came back. Following his return a waiter arrived with another huge pizza. We apologised and said we hadn't ordered any more, and there must be some mistake, when a little voice piped up, " that's my pizza mummy, I ordered it myself"!

Trip to Kenya

Sorry we have had problems with our internet, so this is rather a late post.

Almost two weeks ago now we set off on our trip to Kenya to meet up with my sister and her husband. We drove to Dar first for Daniel to do some work and then set off for the Kenyan coast. It was too far to travel in one day so we stayed overnight in Tanga close to the border. Tanga is around 7 hours non stop driving from Dodoma. We then drove on a terrible road to the border, road is rather overstating it, it was more like a dry river bed. It only took us 1.5 hours to get through the border which wasn't too bad and then it was on to Mombassa. Caleb said he saw a kangaroo just over the border. We didn't bother to disuade him otherwise, he was pretty convinced. What we didn't know was that central Mombassa is an island and much to the childrens delight we had to take a ferry to get across to the centre. We then found ourselves suddenly in the middle of a big, very busy city, stuck in a traffice jam, quite a shock when you are used to Dodoma. (See photo of central Mombassa)
After making our way through the traffic it was another 2 hours up the coast to Watamu. We had a fantastic week there relaxing, playing table tennis, darts, water polo, canoing. We also saw a variety of wildlife including huge crabs and turtles on the beach, crocodiles, pythons and a camel. The thing the boys enjoyed the most were the rabbits and the guinea pigs, they were not so bothered about the exotic animals. One day I played tennis with my sister surrounded by baboons who came to watch. It was one of our best holdiays here ever, depsite the very long drive, almost 30 hours of driving time, not including stops and being stopped 7 times by the police!

Trip to Kenya