Thursday, September 18, 2008

More Kenya. Read previous one first.

It wasn't all hard work though, we got to go to an elephant orphanage, a giraffe feeding centre and even went on Safari. The Lord brought out all His splendor in creation as we saw over 30 giraffes, Eland, Ostrich and their many babies, Pumba(Warthog, my favorite), zebra, heartebeast, gizelle, crocks(a huge one,10 feet), and many more.

Robbie and Elizabeth live in the coolest place the backyard overlooks the National game park and every evening we saw and heard many animals, even Lions attacking a zebra. The whole house is surrounded by an electric fence and we had night security on the property again reminding us of our need for God's protection there.

We stayed in the Massai Lodge, which I thought was going to be a kip, but turned out to be amazing. Our bedroom overlooked Buffalo valley and we could see and hear a river below us. In the morning Baboons would come to eat whatever we had for them, and even the Warthog's would make an occasional appearance. We had good food there and the team really bonded with the staff. There was 24 hour security there and we felt so safe, being walked to our rooms each evening, and a guard was never far away even while relaxing. In the evenings Robbie would drive us back through part of the game park to our accomodation and some of us got to sit on the roof of the Jeep, this was such a cool experience and a little scary especially on the nights we saw a herd of Buffalo(most feared animal in Kenya) and upon arrival at the Lodge we heard a guard shout Simba(Lion) is around.

After the team went back both myself and Linda got to stay on in Kenya for an extra 5days and what an experience that was. We got to meet a kid that we sponser with Compassion child and that was both amazing and heart breaking as we got to see where he lived and heard what he had come from. Praise God that he provides for all our needs this kid was certainly in need and still is. We also go to go on the public mitatu's with Elizabeth to downtown Nairobi, now that was some experience, Linda almost got run over by a Mitatu as we tried to jump off the one we were in :) We also got to see the Rift valley and go to a tea plantation so that was all great. It was so hard to say goodbye when it came to tuesday morning. But we are so grateful for the time we had.

Anyway what an experience, God is utterly amazing, we had a brilliant time enjoying His creation, both People and Animals and we were all truly blessed by this incredible trip. Any takers for next year?

3 comments:

Paddy Griffin said...

welcome back! when do I sign up for next year!!!

Naomi Sloane said...

Hey, wow it all sounds incredible, really exciting that you got to build houses for widows & orphans!!
Absolutely sign me up for next year ;) xx

Unknown said...

Welcome home! The trips sounds amazing. Well done to you both and the team. That's really encouraging.