Golfing at Nagolie

This really was too much today!! Tony and I went to get the children at Ereteti at 1:15. Usually they start walking home if we are late, but Tony reminded me that they wouldn't be going anywhere, because 'they know' Auntie Simmie is on her way. We saw the little ones sitting patiently - but as soon as they saw us, Tony sped by as if we were headed down the road to Tanzania. Tony, quite the prankster, does things like this to the kids all the time - really keeping them on their toes and wondering. No one can say Kenyans lack a sense of humor!

As we unloaded all 15 us out of a Toyota Camry (yes, 15 passengers), we found Peter back at the home setting up a makeshift driving range, complete with left and right handed clubs, rubber and plastic balls and hockey sticks with tennis balls. One by one, Peter taught them the art of the perfect swing... David, Peresia and Eva were naturals. The rest? They were simply loving the experience:

At 6:15pm, my friend Mtinda drove up to the dorm with 3 new bunk beds for the boys. Now, the are all together and the dorm is officially a permanent fixture at the home, not a shell of a building that kept ME sleepless off an on for a year and a half.

Sweet dreams, all!

With love,


Simmie and Sylvia