23rd March

Its Monday morning morning here, early, I've been up since daybreak,... but still had the best sleep of the trip so far. This long haul flying does awful things to my inbuilt clock!

Nairobi has to be driven in to be believed... I have no idea how anyone gets anywhere in this city without bad things happening.

Yesterday We saw a big group of onlookers gathered on the opposite lanes of a nearby road... around what appeared to be an unlucky pedestrians body... the day before, someone actually stopped for us at a pedestrian crossing!... only to have another car tail end him for obeying the road rules. The little Hiace buses and their larger light truck cousins rule the roads... they drive flat out on the footpath, or the wrong side of the road, or stop mid roundabout to let off a passenger

Security is a huge issue, Chris has a steel gate on entrance porch with padlocks, steel grates over ever window, a huge solid fence with steel gates and 2 padlocks and a security guard on a gate up the road protecting this group of houses.

In many places we have to wind up the car windows, as Chris has had her bag stolen several times wile driving... look out when you walk downtown with no car for protection!

Church yesterday at the Solidarity Child Rescue Centre was the highlight of the trip so far,... so many joyful young people, music and singing was amazing!... Unfortunately the Pastor got caught up with people problems on the Saturday when he was to be studying... so called Chris Saturday evening to see if the visitors were able to preach for him... I was glad that I had copied some of my old sermon notes, and was able to adapt them...We had a look at Epaphroditus, in Philipians 2.

We have been unable even to send emails for some time. I installed a bubble jet printer to Chris' Vista laptop, which still wont work properly and mucked up the USB connections... one of which goes to a mobile phone for email, and we still haven't got it to work again!!.... Life in Kenya has some huge frustrations!

Today we desperately need to get the emails going again, and are going to pick out Chris' new photocopier... another trip on those roads! But, we do look forward to whatever comes our way for the day!

Till next time

Col