Kitengela

After my three hour nap and shower yesterday, I was feeling much better. I think I just needed to get it out of my system.

When everyone got back yesterday, we hung around for about an hour before heading over to Kitengela, a town about 15 minutes away. There is one hotel in that town that is quite nice with a pool and a restaurant surround the pool. The drive there was ridiculous. The roads are terrible; mostly gravel or old asphalt with giant potholes everywhere. The drivers swerve everywhere to avoid them, so half the time it feels like we're playing chicken with the cars coming from the other direction.

Dinner was good and we said goodbye to Wendy, Josh's mom; she had to leave to catch her flight. Then we had a very leisurely dinner with some pretty good food. When ordering off a menu in Kenya, one must always have 3 choices because the chances are that they won't have what you want at first go.

The ride home was a bit smoother because there was less traffic. That is until we hit the highway... We instructed our driver to take a particular turn off, and when he missed it, we ended up driving the opposite direction on a one-way highway. Pretty certain that Milanne almost passed out in the back seat due to fear. Then when we arrived at our place, the driver tried to get us to pay him more because he claimed it was farther than the centre of Mlolongo. But it was actually closer had he not missed the turn off that we told him to take. And I wasn't about to pay him and extra 100 shillings for almost killing us.

We have some new arrivals coming today - Andrew and Meghann, a couple from Halifax. They arrived at 4am Sunday morning and Josh is at the airport right now, picking them up. They should be here by now, so I'm not sure if they had any problems landing.

We won't be up to much today, so I'm not sure if I'll have any stories to tell til Monday evening.