Some of our lists

Jet lag really caught up with me, and then I spent 3 days sorting photos and video. I managed to narrow it down to our favorite 250 pictures - thank you Kodak for timing your print sale for us.. and then edited the video down to much less than an hour. Nobody needs to see it all, even us! That's the first cut, we will continue to make it shorter so we can share our experiences without boring people!

Top 10 +1 (no particular order)

1. Lion (see Monday's post)

2. Our stay with Ole Salepu

3. Listening to Dan Speak Maa

4. Landscape - Kenya is so beautiful!

5. Getting to know the CMF Maasai Team ( including getting to know the Crums better!)

6. Listening to hippos and lions while we slept

7. Going to lunch at Augustin's Home

8. The Nest, orphanage in Nairobi

9. Turtle Bay

10. Giraffe Farm

11. Church Under the tree


And then here's our list of interesting facts....

Facts

70% of Nairobi's population live in slums; there are over 1million in one particular slum.

Cultural difficulties exist for adoption in Kenya- there is no socially acceptable way for a mother to safely give her baby up for adoption, so many are just abandoned.

We saw first hand the importance of infrastructure-roads, water, electricity, communication.

Cheap labor leads to short term thinking- why buy a jackhammer when for less money you can hire 30 guys to break up the old road with sledgehammers.

Everybody was selling something-our favorite was the guy on the road to the airport that was always there selling wall sized world maps.... like you're just going to be sitting in traffic and decide... HEY, I need a HUGE map.

The traffic in Nairobi is chaos. After a certain hour, everyone just ignores red lights, round abouts might not be the answer, speed bumps really do slow down traffic, but they are painful if you don't see them in time, there are no lane markings so you just make a lane wherever, and they don't seem to have rules of the road, more like suggestions...Cars have the right of way over people- so watch out!

Intelligent and happy people can live in very primitive conditions and be content.

Africa can be quite chilly during the US summer.

The CDC in Atlanta provided blood chemistry machines at a little rural clinic - our tax dollars at work actually saving lives in Africa!