A muddy afternoon

How else would you spend a Sunday afternoon!!

Birthday Boy

Well the Star Wars party is over. Thank goodness for the beautiful African sunshine and a lovely garden in which to entertain 12 energetic children. And thank you Lord for a great husband who designed a fantastic Jedi obstacle course and was happy to have over 100 water balloons thrown at him by small enthusistic Star Wars fans. Just for interests sake, my 3 children aside,the nationalities of the children were, Canadian, American, French, Russian, Finish, Scottish and Indian and 1 Israeli who was unable to come.

After the party there was what sounded like a big explosion. No idea what it was, so it was either a terrorist attack or another car driving into a transformer. For those of you who are interested, the bollards outside our house have been crashed into again and replaced, I think that is the third time in almost as many weeks.

Bethany went on a 3 day camping trip this week with school, which I think she enjoyed, but her mother didn't. I said goodbye to her on Wednesday morning as they loaded all the luggage onto the roof-rack of the bus together with all the food and supplies they might need. The cooks had gone on ahead in another bus. I don't find it easy to send my children on trips across Kenya to places I don't know and with people I don't really know. Still she saw mount Kenya, had a monkey jump on her arm, roasted marsh mellows around a camp fire and came back safe and sound. I am sure it was a good experience for her. Joshua has a trip to Mombassa in a few weeks which he is very excited about. I am not so thrilled, but you have to let them grow up!! I am sure they would not have such exciting trips if they went to school in England.

Caleb is currently planning what sort of job he will do when he grows up that will enable him to earn enough money to have a swimming pool. The current plan is to be a vet. He is not impressed by the fact that we do not have a swimming pool. Joshua and Bethany have managed to make friends with people who do, (good move I think). Despite the fact that according to Caleb he has over 200 friends (this may be true), none of these friends have a pool. Choose your friends carefully I say!!!