Indian Ocean now

This is a photo of the three of us with some children at “The Nest”. It’s a home for children run by a German woman and it’s just outside the Crum’s neighborhood entrance. Kevin is holding Paul, I’m holding Kate and Paige has Cynthia. There were 9 babies the first day we were there and 10 or 11 the second time we went. Most of them are available for adoption, the stories of their young lives were very sad, but they are happy well cared for babies now. Faith, the woman who takes care of the babies is amazing and obviously loves them very much. We had a long conversation with Salome, the nurse in the facility, about adoption laws and practices in Kenya and the US. It was fun to play with them in the sunshine and just love them for a while. It was also hard to leave!

This is a photo at the Ethiopian restaurant that is the Crum’s favorite. It was a new cuisine for all of us and I don’t know the correct names for everything we ate. You have this huge tray with lots of delicious food, and you use rolls of a bread like substance, tear off little pieces of it and then use it to pick up a bite of goat meat, or beef or a humus like mixtures, etc. It was interesting, filling and I’d eat it again.

We made it to Turtle Bay on the Indian Ocean. We had a flight scheduled to Malindi, which is very close, but they canceled that and put us on a flight to Mombassa. Then Kenya Airways put 14 of us on a bus to the Malindi, but dropped us off at the resort, it took about two hours and Paige learned that pineapples grow in plants instead of on trees! It's pretty here and we're getting oriented. The food is good, the people friendly, but we're starting to miss American English!