We’re off! In a short time we will be leaving for Toronto to spend the night with our daughter Cathy, her husband Brian and our granddaughter Deborah. Tomorrow we’ll go to church with them then Cathy will drive us to the airport for our 5:45 flight to Kenya via Amsterdam. We arrive in Nairobi Monday night then Tuesday morn we fly to Eldoret in the Rift Valley. We’ll be met there and driven to the Robin’s Nest Children’s Home in Bungoma.


A lot of luggage to manipulate!

It has been a real rush to get ready and to top it off I came down with cold like symptoms, but it may be a reaction to the Yellow Fever vaccine, our previous one ran out in Dec 2009. In any event, I’m taking something to clear up the worst of the symptoms and as they say in the TV ad, “Feeling better!”

We have 4 bags, 2 of which are devoted to things for the children’s home, mainly clothes. KLM allows us 2 bags each of 23 kg. but the airline from Nairobi to Eldoret say 1 bag at 20 kg. Excess weight is charged at 50 Kenyan shillings per kg. (About 59 cents Cdn). The extra bags weigh about 18 kg each. However, we have been told that they won’t charge if they know they are for the children’s home. I hope that’s correct.

Last Sunday the congregation at Quinte Bible Chapel officially sent us off with prayers and we had dinner last night with old friends and were thoroughly prayed over again. We’re looking forward to this trip.

That’s all for now folks. It may be a while before I figure out the best way to post to this blog but keep tuned and I’ll get something up ASAP. Dick