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November 19, 2006
kenya pics
for more pics, go to my flickr, i thought these of Rehema were great
Rehema feeding chickens at grandma's
Rehema pushing a tire, we did this a lot when we were growing up
Rehema got her own seat on the plane from Memphis
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tea plantations
I did take some pictures of the tea plantations in Kenya which I thought were cool...sorry, I took them from a moving car
these are the tea plantations
these are the houses where the workers live, quite a number of employers including the govt. provide housing for their employees as a benefit
more houses
will post more pictures later
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Kenya trip
i cannot believe that our two weeks visit to Kenya is over, everything in Kenya is an experience and we had an awesome time meeting with family and friends after 4 years. we thank God for his protection and we had a safe journey.
the highlights were:
- meeting family and friends especially having them meet Rehema for the first time
- having no water for 4 consecutive days, on day 4 we left for upcountry (rural) where there was plenty of water and electricity...how ironical
- eating juicy pineapples and mangos, drinking lots of mango juice, and eating bananas, paw paws and water melons and of course Ugali
- having no electricity for 24 hours and yet the house next door had electricity
- Rehema playing with every kid she met. She had so much fun, interesting how kids make new friends fast
- having a car that would not start before 10 am
- walking, walking and walking, we walked a lot which was good for us, we even walked in the rain
- going to the cyber cafe to check e-mail. it costs 1.5 cents a minute to surf, it took forever to load, and you could see what your neighbor was looking at without making an effort to look
- drinking lots of chai...I am afraid that Rehema is now addicted to chai
- having two punctures on our way back from upcountry
- having two big parties, the first one was with some of Sila's siblings,their spouses and kids and the second one was with Sila's parents and my parents and uncles and aunties plus a few other people
- sitting in a salon for 7 hours and have 5 people braid my hair at the same time
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