At Home at Abila....Finally!

Tuesday morning Yasu, Moira, Stacey, Chandni, and Porsha met at Heathrow airport to take a flight together to Nairobi. We made it out just in time before they cancelled over 5o flights at 11am because of a security breach. That incident on top of the Doctors and cars driving into Glasgow and whatever else was going on made us so happy we got out when we did!
The flight was fine for me, except for one point when the plane dropped and the woman from Spain next to me almost started crying. She spoke zero words of English and I was so tired that I couldn't think of any Spanish words until it was time to exit the plane, but I helped her wipe up the coffee she spilled, which I think may have helped.

We arrived in Nairobi and made the slow exit out of the terminal where I bought a SIM card that advertised a network all over East Africa, which I thought I would need and that it would work on my cell phone from home. I unlocked the phone, but it still didn't work.
Sara and Joe met us at the airport with Sara's friend, Geoffrey, Nelson who manages the hotel, and the driver, Nathaniel. We checked in to the hotel, which had no elevator and our bags clunked the whole way up the many flights. The elevator was inexpensive, but clean and safe. After we put our stuff down, we piled back into the van and drove off. We made a stop at one place to meet up with friends of Geoffrey's. They were extremely friendly women from Kisumu who told us they would meet us at the next place. We had to go on to celebrate Brad from the Kenyan Education Fund's birthday. AS we were driving Joe saw a tent reading "It is Tusker time" He asked out loud "How did they know?" We quickly figured out it is an extremely popular Kenyan beer.
So, We arrived at Simmers where "the answer is on your plate." Brad and Jaime (his wife?) were there. Their program sounds great. They match sponsors with children in need of fees for secondary education. They had delicious Tilapia and Tusker beer. Lillian, one of the women from Kisumu, told me it is pronounced Tuskah.



Here is Yasu to describe the 9 hour drive from Nairobi to Kisumu: that was amazing drive, like a roller corster. furthermore, We come across zebras and baboons. It was a enough exciting adventure for our first page of diary.