From Geoffrey to You — Safari fun and carnivorious adventure

Tuesday May 5, 2009

I know this past week the youth camp kind of hindered my sending out emails and the last few days I haven’t been able to send many out as well because of hanging with the other white folks. I wanted to give you all a recap of what the past few days have been like.

We went to this place called Wyunu (something like that) and it is the prime place to buy those infamous Kenya wood carvings. We pulled up late in the afternoon and were simply amazed. There were dozens of men chopping, sawing, chiseling and creating the most astounding things out of wood. These guys were taking giant blocks of wood and turning them into the most detailed and gorgeous animals, masks, and creations imaginable. These guys spent hours upon hours on these creations. I was baffled to say the least. One of the Americans took a picture of a guy carving and he charged him money after he had taken the picture, hilarious!

I preached Sunday at church and then we headed to Nairobi and stayed in this place that is a five star hotel in comparison to where I have been living. It is called “Heart” and is run by this little old woman named Vicky, who has one of the most peaceful and gentle souls. It is actually an organization that does incredible things, I wont give you many details cause I am going to save them for a different blog. This place was GREAT! I got to use a toilet and take a shower. I ate some American food… Thank you Jesus!

For dinner we blessed the staff of the Carnivore with our presence. This place was just what I needed. Imagine a place where you have every kind of meat imaginable and can eat as much as you want. Servers are walking around with swords gouging slabs of chicken, beef, ostrich, meat balls, sausage and constantly fill and refill your plate. You can imagine how much I enjoyed this place after not really eating much meat in about two months. I think that my stomach shrunk since I have been here though because I ate a lot less than I would have when I lived in the states. It was one guys birthday so we had cake.. never eat Kenyan cake… just say “No.”

Yesterday I went on a safari in Nakuru. We saw everything!!! Thousands upon thousands of flamingos were within inches of us. Volchures crept along a river. We saw hyenas rolling around in the mud. We crossed paths with literally DOZENS of zebras and DOZENS of water buffalo. Eagles. Monkeys (with blue private parts). We fed baboons cough drops and Pringles. We saw a baboon with a baby that was only a few hours old. We saw antelope and gazelles, or maybe just gazelles they kind of look the same right? Giraffes are simply INCREDIBLE, we also saw a bunch of them near the airport as we dropped off the Americans. I think one of the coolest things was the fact that we got charged by a rhino. We were just about done with our trip and were going through pretty thick bushes. We didn’t see anything interesting and then all of a sudden this GIANT rhino started to charge at our van and stopped within a foot or two. It was literally the size of the van. HOW COOL!!! We were within feet and sometimes inches when we saw all of these animals, and they were all in their natural element.

We took the group of Americans from Pathway Church to the airport a few hours ago. They are such amazing people. I can’t explain how incredible their hearts are. I was getting a little lonely and they completely reenergized my batteries. I feel pumped and ready to go because God blessed me with them. We laughed and shed a few tears. Sometime REALLY funny is a video we looked up because one of the guys told us about it. If you go onto youtube and type in “bottle rocket butt” you will get one of the FUNNIEST videos. I know it is a bit inappropriate and a little crude but we watched it a few times, us missionaries, and were crying from laughing so hard. If you don’t laugh at really idiotic things I don’t recommend watching the video, if you have a sense of humor like me check it out and you wont go wrong.

Asante Sana,

Mwendwa

Prayer Requests:
Travels for my new American friends
More rain… we are doing MUCH better but are still lacking the rain
Finances for a generator
My safety
Our medical staff and that everything goes well as it opens

Randoms:
Stanley Mutunga is BY FAR one of the most incredible Christian men I have ever met. He is the one God chose to start this organization. I’ll have to tell you more about him in a later blog.
I guess that if you have a green light or a red light they both mean go when you are driving in Kenya.
The lane lines are more like suggestions here.
FUNNY STORY: The first night I came here I went to a hotel to eat dinner with the guys who picked me up. Now I know that the plumbing in Mexico is really bad and you cant flush the toilet paper, I assumed the same for this place. When I went to the bathroom there was a trash can right next to the toilet so I put all of my used toilet paper in it, thinking that I couldn’t flush it because of bad plumbing. I was wrong. You can flush toilet paper. I feel really bad for the guy who had to take out the trash. I was reminded of that because I am staying in that same hotel tonight.

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