Grace's UN adventure

Monday we took Grace to have a passport picture taken, now this 2 and 1/2 old baby was not very cooperative. She had to have both eyes open, both ears showing and no crying - the US Embassy wouldn't accept the picture if any of the above were present Now in three months when they go to use the passport - Grace won't look anything like the picture!!!!

I want to let the girls in Plymouth aware that we have started our resume for the Plymouth Rock Studio! We can say that we have been extras in a show. At church Sunday they were filming the whole mass - it had something to do with the Pope's visit in Angola this week. The camera came to us several times, I guess because we were some of the only whites in the church! We could understand this Italian Priest better than the older one last week. The congretation sang some of the responses in Swahali - it was lovely.

The driving here is crazy. We have seen 2 stops signs. And the places that have traffic lights - no one pays attention to them. There are rotories all over the place - and you soon learn to play chicken!!!!
thank God Charles is very good driver.

While driving anywhere here, you can trash being burned. Doesn't matter if you see it on the roadside or behind these walls that are everywhere. The other thing is the diesel smell from the cars and trucks - it is terrible. The #1 car by far is Toyota. You see them everywhere. I think Nissen is next. There are lots of Mercedes and BMW. The license plates are different colors, red being either an embassy or the UN, white and yellow are regular plates and then there are blue plates for government. There are some very fancy cars with blue plates!!! The corruption here is terrible.

The other night at dinner Kristoffer's boss told us that China is buying up everything they can here, and it is a problem. They are trying to find oil and anything else that will help them.

In the compound that Lisa and Kristoffer live, there is a caretaker, Hillary. Well Hillary doesn't like Lisa because she turned him into the owner for not paying bills that they had given him money for. Now Hillary is no Brad Pitt, believe it or nor he has 3 wives!!!!! So last Thurs. we lost power here. I was sitting by myself in the upstairs family room, and everything went black. Lisa called up to just still. Sure enough in a few minutes, the generator turned the power back on. Well the cable never came back. They brought the box back to the cable company and there was nothing wrong with it. So she had to call her friend Hillary, who was suppose to call the cable line company. She called, and called and Hillary never answered or lied to her. yesterday a serviceman came and in 30 minutes had the thing going. He said they had just been called that morning! The next door neighbor said they too were having trouble with Hillary. But the owner keeps him because he helped build this compound and knows where everything is!!!!!! That is Kenya!

We hope everyone had a good St. Patrick's Day. No corned beef here or green beer. But we did have gin and tonic with a lime!!!

This week is kind of quiet, we need Grace to sleep a little better at night. Next week we hope to go to the National Park here in Nairobi. Lisa says if we go real early, we could see the Lions. Charles will take us.