Holidays

This week was the first week of the Easter School holiday. Unfortunately it doesn't coincide with the holidays of the other schools (American and Dutch) so we are by ourselves on the compound. So far we have played a 3 hour game of Monopoly: gone to a soft play area: gone out for chicken and chips; gone out to a coffee shop with a play area; gone to the dentist and bounced on our neighbours trampoline. There aren't really any parks here that you can play in, all the play areas are attached to eating places so you have to buy something to use the facilities.

Today after church we drove to the edge of the rift valley to eat lunch Masai style. The Masai have set up a sort of restaurant where you can buy a meal and enjoy the view of the rift valley. Well actually they have a herd of goats and a few chickens and the menu is, you guessed it, chicken or goat or both. The food takes rather a long time to come because with no refrigeration everything is freshly cooked. That sounds nice but what it actually means is that you can go and watched your meal being slaughtered before you eat it. Then a couple of hours later a pile of meat appears on a wooden board and that is lunch. No need to bother about plates, cutlery, side salad or vegetables. Needless to say that went down very well with certain members of the family!

(The photo was taken on the way back. The children thought we were back in Tanzania. They associate Kenya with City life and Tanzania with rural life.)