Monday and Tuesday February 24 and 25, 2014

 

Monday flew by.  Matt left early for a week long meeting in Kenya.  The kids were off school,so one of Tierneys friends spent the day with us.  We played lots of games and the girls made lots of bracelets (and an anklet for me)  Mama Jackie made a delicious lentil and vegetable creation served with flat bread to use as a utensil. Always a salad with greens from the garden accompany the meal.  Lisa made tacos for dinner.

Tuesday went by equally as fast.  Lisa and the kids rode their bikes to school, then Lisa came back and we attempted to go into town to the supermarket and butcher.  Turns out some VIP was visiting and the main road into town had traffic pulled over and at a stand still.  Lisa turned around and the other northern road into town was also closed.  Took us about an hour to get out of that mess.

We met Tierney for her music lesson at noon at school.  She has been taught piano by the Suzuki (sp?) method and is doing very well.  On Friday she is in a recital and I am happy to be here for that.  We ate lunch at school.  I had a hot dog inside of of a dough (not pastry, but more like bread).  It was yummy.  We ate with Tierney and saw Ashlyn and met two other friends of Tierney.

Quick trip home and then back to school for pick up.  Pick up because the girls were to have their horseback riding lessons.  That turned out not to happen because Udine’s mother was stuck in a business meeting and Lisa had to bring 3 bikes, 4 kids and me in the car.  After school was a whirlwind of the 3 girls playing and Anderson and 2 of his friends here as well.

Lisa couldn’t get the groceries she wanted so she improvised dinner and made a quiche with cheese and spinach.  Very good indeed.

It’s now just after 8 and all is quiet.  The electricity went off around 4:30 and we’re on battery back up now.

I’ve discovered you can do fine with no electricity and no internet.  Also on safari cold spaghetti and sauce can taste pretty good.  On safari when you are so wrapped up in seeing the animals you can really not focus on your pain for a couple of hours.  I think there is hope for all of us who are hurting so much.