Today's Trips

Well today we went to the vegetable market with Ida.  She can do the negotiating much better than Lisa or Kristoffer.  Think they get the while people's prices.  I took some pictures and hope to share some with you.  It was so interesting watching the bartering with different vendors.  Also women were shucking peas into bowls along with some kind of beans.  Of course we were back to the Mama name.  We were looking for acorn squash, we thought we had seen it the last time we were there, but no luck.  I was going to show Ida a recipe I have to make with acorn squash.

While we were out we went back to the mall's grocery store.  We notice that they have a lot of employees not doing too much.  And uniforms are worn.  Uniforms are important to Kenyans.  Ida has hers, but Charles doesn't.  Ida doesn't wear the uniform when she goes to the market or when she is cleaning the house.  But when she is in the kitchen getting meals ready, she seems to put it back on.  Lisa had to take her two different places, before she got the uniform she wanted.

Riding around today we saw some new sights.  They had garbage collection in one part of the city.  No BFI trucks here.  The one we saw was a large open truck, filled with garbage with a man standing on top of the garbage.  Well someone was handing him the garbage on one side of the truck, and it was falling down to the road on the other side!   Like Lisa says - that's Kenya.

The other thing we saw was about 6 - 7 women, older women, climbing up a hill, carrying very large loads of wood sticks on their backs.  They had them bundled with some kind of cloth that was tied and like a headband on their heads.  You really felt sorry for them.  We saw so many people walking today, they don't have sidewalks, they just walk on the side of the road on dirt, that has been worn so much their are paths.  

On the way home from the Dr.'s office, we saw men skating with roller blades right up the middle of the street.  Then along comes some guy holding onto a matatu bus.  These are the crazy buses I've talked about.  Ida says they have seating for 14, with generally 28 passengers!

Grace made out fine at the Dr., no more jaundice and she'd gained weight and grew a little longer.  I took my camera this time, hoping to get pictures of the monkeys, but no luck.

Tomorrow Kristoffer is taking us to the orphanage and to the bar-b-que.  Should be a busy day.