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Published: July 10th 2007
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Hey everyone! I've received that many emails telling me how long it is since I've written a blog, that I'm beginning to think it's true. Anyway, am planning on cheating slightly and doing some backdating, so hope it's not too confusing....
So, the big news is that dad and Liam have arrived! We had a bit of a mad rush to organise things for their arrival We are now being fully in the swing of the Kenyan way of doing things - ie very slowly. That will, at least, remain our excuses for being total lazy sods and foregoing organisational duties for video watching time. Gee, 'Gods Must Be Crazy' is funny.
Anyway, wednesday afternooon saw us running round Kilifi town getting food, water, booze and a double mattress. A little difficult to carry this load the 5km home, so tuk tuk to the rescue. Unfortunately, I'd left the house keys at work, so the tuk tuk had to make a detour there. We had our own little 'Gods Must Be Crazy' moment when the tuk tuk - mattress strapped to the roof - was unable to get up the hill to work (note this is not normally a problem)
and we started rolling backwards down the hill. I'm sure this was rather amusing for all the people from the lab who'd just left work and drove past us...
Thursday was the big day - I had to give a seminar at work at 4, so we jumped in David's taxi at 5 and dashed down to Mombasa Airport (via Nakumatt for pillows and some welcoming cold beers!) and arrived at the airport just as they walked out the arrivals gate. What timing! Was ridiculously fantastically good to see them both. They had about as good (or maybe authentic) a welcome to Kenya as we could manage - cold Tuskers in the taxi, a flat tyre thanks to the terrible Mombasa-Kilifi road (thank goodness for the spare!), being jumped on by Klein and having welcome leis made by Anne, our housekeeper.
But, not long after we arrived home, they were understandably cactus (36 hours of travelling and arriving at your equivalent of 5am will do that to you!), so we left them to sleep off their jet lag and got stuck into the presents that had been sent. Woo hoo!! Thanks very much Justin, Joey, Conor and Brigid's mates (and
dad and Liam for carrying them!!) for the Tim Tams, CDs, DVDs, clothes (I was a very excited little hoochie in my old jeans and new top the next day) and books. 'Twas like Christmas!! We stayed up watching scrubs until it was nearly 5am for us too (well, maybe not quite...).
The next few days involved a little bit of work (for me - Brigid is on an extended holiday at the moment), and a lot of showing dad and Liam the sights of Kilifi and Watamu. Liam, being a cheery greeter of people down the street even in Australia, was most excited that everyone says hi to everyone, and nominated himself 'Chief Jambo-er'!! Dad kept a pen and piece of paper in his pocket the whole time so that he could write down useful phrases, and they are now both experts at 'hi', 'thank you', 'how are you', 'i'm well', 'i don't want it' and 'i don't have any'. I think they were both excited, amused, shocked, exhausted and delighted by all the things they've seen here.
I'll let the pictures and captions explain where we took them. Stay tuned for our trips to Zanzibar and the South
Coast! K x
PS Joey and Conor - we miss you! Wish all 6 of us could be here!
PPS Joey, you'll be delighted to know that Liam has turned into you with the camera and has been on a photographing frenzy! none of us managed to get a snap of Blessed Butchery though!
PPPS We watched the world hot dog eating championships on tele in a little cafe in Watamu. Joey Chestnutt - what a man. How the hell does one person eat 63 hot dogs - buns and all - in 12 minutes???
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so so so UNFAIR!!!
i reckon kilifi could handle two more howells