Today

Had a wonderful day today school shopping for school for John. After visiting his school, we made the decision to board him beginning in May. He will live at the school full time and come back to the Center for his school holidays. He is so happy about it and is very excited. There is a list of items that boarders have to bring, so that was our challenge today... sheets, towels, shoes, special uniforms, pajamas, bath products, etc. We then took everything to a lady to have his initials embroidered (JKB - John Kahera Brown :). She embroidered everything (even his socks and washcloths!) for about $5 total - about 50 items! At Patrick's suggestion, we ate lunch at a restaurant (they call them "hotels" here) in Limuru. I avoided eating meat but the Kenyan vegetables I ate were wonderful.

Can't remember if I've written about this or not, but John doesn't have a birth date because he was found in the street when he was a very young child (after getting separated from his older brother). His family has never been located. Every few years they are required to run his picture and story on the news in Nairobi where he was found hoping to find his family, but no luck so far. They don't even know his tribe. We decided to give him my birthday (April 2). Patrick told me today that it's the parents responsibility to plan a birthday celebration at the school, so Tuesday we're bringing a cake and soda to his school for an early birthday. Should be fun!

I'm going to spend a quiet evening at home alone tonight while the rest of the group goes to the Kentmere Club to eat dinner with Pat Dixson (who runs the feeding program we were at earlier in the week). I am ready for a little down time. We have kept a busy pace for the whole trip.

Thankfully, our power was back on last night (after almost 2 days without any power). It's amazing how much you begin to appreciate the little things after being without them.

Will be glad to be home with David and Lauren on Wednesday. I realized on this trip that I've never been away from Lauren for this long before!

Would appreciate prayers for our safe return as we will be traveling home Tuesday and Wednesday.