Mark's Birthday!

Mark's Birthday ... (was just over a week ago ... but we haven't had access to add anything til now!!) was really nice!! - we had a lazy morning ... then phone calls from home (the only time we were away!!) ... and then we went to the MEAT restaurant that we mentioned in a previous post!! - we had beef and chicken (nothing too unusual there!!) and then Ostrich Meatballs ... Camel ... and Crocodile!!! We liked the Ostrich ... the Camel was just like a dry beef ... but the Croc was our least favourite ... it tasted like fatty pork ... but had a very distinctive twang to it!! In the afternoon we went to the Masaai Market and had fun haggling over prices of various things ... Jenny didn't let them get away with ripping us off too much ... they got more than they bargained for when they tried to sell at too high a price to her!! When we got to Kakamega a couple of days later to visit our friends the Amukoa's ... Lucy and Andrew has organised a cake for Mark we had a little birthday celebration on arrival!! Left to Right - Andrew, Lucy, Mark, Carol, Sally and Elon!! ... and they also bought Mark a birthday African shirt!! Here's Mark and Lucy outside the Amukoa's front door!!

The MAF compound!!

The Guest House we stayed in on the MAF compound in Nairobi was on Argwings Kodhek Road and housed 6 different MAF families as well as the Guest House ... we got to know most of them quite well!! - they were all nationalities ... British, Dutch, Finnish!!! There were also Kenyan staff there ... who made our stay even lovelier!! Here is Benson ... the day guard during the week ... 'posing' at his post at the main gate! Here is John ... he looks after the guest house ... cleaning, changing the beds, buying supplies, fixing things, washing, ironing ... he's a lovely guy and when not at the guest house, pastors a small church in Nairobi! This final photo is of Michael who looks after the grounds of the compound and keeps it looking lovely all the time ... and cleaning windows and other things as well!!