Today is the day that we travel back to Birmingham and home. I was up at 0520 and out taking pictures of the station waiting on the dining hall to open so that I could get that first cup of tea. The tea was especially good this morning because they had made mixed tea rather than just plain hot water, tea bags, milk and sugar. The breakfast was served at 0730 and it was okay. The breakfast meal is usually the best meal and for the last several days we have chosen to do those two meals somewhere else.
The flowers are in full bloom and as I walk around the station it amazes me that I am still finding new flowers that I had overlooked on previous days.
Around 1200 little David, a child of Norwegian missionary, came by where we were have lunch and said Hello but that is about all we can understand. He disappeared and came back with his football wanting me to play again with him. We went and played in the large yard and finally several other station children came so I left the football to the young. David’s family is on the way back to Norway after serving in Tanzania.
Jim and I caught the matatu and went to the bank and Nakumatt and picked up samosas for lunch. The samosas are little meat pies and they are very good. We got another ride on the matatu and headed back to the station.
It has been basically a boring day just waiting for the ride to the airport at 1600. It has been interesting however to see if the bags can be packed and not exceed the 23 kilos weight limit. We will see when we get to the airport how much the bags actually weigh.
We stopped at the First Book and Sherlock Den and a great hamburger and Coke light on the way to the Jumo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. We reached the airport and got all the bags through the scanner and I did have one bag that was 5 kilos overweight so I removed some items and put them in Jim and Mary’s bags. I will recover them when we get to Birmingham on Thursday.
The airport was full of people as usual and there was a mission team from Atlanta and one from Dothan that we had discussion with. The one from Dothan is a medical team that works in the Narok area with the local indigenous people.
The flight was in a Boeing 747-400 and it was full of passengers and it was a good flight and arrived in Amsterdam at 0525 Thursday morning.
We are here in terminal E waiting on the next leg to Atlanta, GA which leaves at 1055.
More later.
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