04.28.07
Market Madness
We went to the Market the other day. Not the normal grocery market but the Massai Market.
The Massai people are like the Africans you see in National Geographic. Like what you think of when you think African. Not all of them wear the traditional dress but a good number still do. They carry around spears too. They are a fierce, loyal, and in general very friendly people. Though you really wouldn’t want to get on their bad side.
Every weekend they have open air markets around the city where they sell hand-crafts, souvenir stuff, and every day African stuff.
AMAZING! Beautiful work…I don’t even know how to describe it. They just have really incredible stuff.
And they have really incredible sales tactics. Maybe scary would be a better descriptor. I had Jared strapped on so for the most part they didn’t push me around to much. Though I did get a few offers for my baby…which I turned down very firmly. : )
Everyone had “a very reasonable price for you today” and we had one man tell us that he accepted “vegetarian money also”.
We asked him what on earth he meant by that…he just looked at us like the ignorant Mzungus that we must appear to be and said “green money”!
So, good news to all you “vegetarian money” users. They’ll take your money here. : )
The rainy season has come and with it lots of bugs!!! Yuck!
Yesterday Seth (our resident fierce protector) waged war on the bug army that had invaded our deck, and won the day in a brilliant and massive cloud of DOOM. They were still gone this morning so he must have really done a job of it.
So far we haven’t seen any horrific bugs (like cockroaches) though there is one called the “Nairobi Fly” that, if it bites you or gets smashed on you will burn your skin. Pleasant.
There was a whole battalion of those on the deck, but no more.
Thankyou all so much for your prayers and correspondence. I know I say this all the time but you have no idea how much it means to us.
Life here is so different and difficult in ways we have never experience before and knowing we are surrounded in prayer by “such a great cloud of witnesses” makes all the difference.
You inspire us with confidence and comfort us with your prayers so THANKS! We couldn’t do this without you.
~Roadsign of the Week~
Sign seen on a public restroom downtown, “Rehabilitation of Public Toilet”. Hhhmmm. I wonder how they rehabilitate them. Might be a good skill to learn…I can think of quite a few public toilets in the U.S. that could use some rehabilitation. : )
~Food Find~
Ceres’ Fruit Juices. There is no description for how yummy these boxes of 100% fruit juices are. So far we have tried out apricot, peach, apple/pear, passion fruit, mango, white grape, regular grape, kiwi/strawberry, and cranberry/kiwi. YUM, YUM, YUM! Even Seth had to admit that they really are better than Tang…and that’s a big concession for him.
Bread Fruit different huh…
The Equator
Just some of the local wild life