Dear Family and Friends:
Well another week gone. They go by pretty fast, starts with Monday, then Tuesday, you know the order by the time Friday rolls around we are ready for another weekend. On Saturday we went to Nairobi and had dinner with the branch president and his wife. It was really good to have food different than what we have been eating here for the past month. Mom, I know what you mean now about getting tired of the same stuff day after day. There is a variety, but it feels like there is little change.
While we were in Nairobi I bought a bike so I can ride it to work and Debi can have the car to do whatever she wants to do. Debi also bought a bathroom scale; bad move. Since she has been here we have been walking each evening, but I’ve been eating more regularly and not exercising as much. Plus to top it all off, sometimes Debi puts more on her plate that I can eat. She tries the food put out for the Indian guests to see what it tastes like, and if she doesn’t like it guess where it ends up. That’s right, on my plate. So, a few things are going to have to change. Will let you know how that goes.
While in Nairobi we also met with the lady who is making arrangements for our climb of Kilimanjaro. So things are coming together for that adventure. We will also try to fit in a safari to Masai Mara following the climb. Speaking about the climb, I saw a tee shirt that had a saying on it, I’ll paraphrase it: It said “I was thinking maybe I play too much, so I’ve decided to quit thinking”. I thought it had a deep meaning.
Because we had completed our shopping yesterday, we toured Nairobi National Park today after church. There were two people at the plant that wanted to do the tour so we joined up. We can add to the list of animals we’ve seen; lion, cape buffalo, rhino, crocodile. We had hoped to see a hippo but they were not where they were supposed to be. The animals are not caged so it is recommended you stay in your car. The lion ran by the car and was within 5 feet of us. Pretty fun adventure. The park is huge, don’t know exactly how big but we were driving for four hours and saw maybe half of the park. There is a sign where you enter that says “Nairobi National Park, Wolrds Largest Wildlife Park”. They had misspelled the word “World”.
The plant is making slow improvement but it still has a long way to go. The consultants will be back this week to help map out the time table and spending schedule for the planned projects. Once that is complete, it will be presented to the Board of Directors to get their buy in. It will be an interesting process. Fortunately the leader of the project is a woman (Suman) and Debi has become friends with her. They have been communicating on Face Book while Suman has been away. Debi may become an honorary member of the turn-around team. Suman got here masters in Michigan so was Americanized while there. Suman and her husband just moved to India and she hates it. So it will be interesting how long she stays in India. She is a very bright woman.
Looks like the paper work for the new branch was turned in. We should have a church closer to Magadi by the first of the year. Won’t miss driving to Nairobi every Sunday. The drivers are absolutely crazy. The roads are two land (one each way) and tonight coming home there were four cars across with pedestrians on both sides of the road. I don’t see how thousands of people don’t get killed each weekend.
After I’ve written each letter I think of things I should have said but can’t remember what I forgot from last week so I’ll say good bye.
Miss all of you. It was good talking to Jesse and wishing him happy birthday. Sorry you didn’t rate a call Robert, maybe next year. But at least I remembered to email; which is more that I do for most family members.
Love you
Paul/dad
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