Kenya Weekend

Last weekend we had a little mini-vacation in Kenya at a beautiful cottage retreat in the only rain forest in Kenya. The highlights were rolling around in the lush grass, kicking the ball with the kids, watching the blue monkey and colobus monkeys play, eating great food prepared by someone other than myself, and having nothing on the agenda.

The lowlights were Jack vomiting all over himself and the car seat
on the drive up (great entertainment for all the locals who gathered to
watch us clean up), a very stressful shopping trip in the city for 6
months' of supplies (isn't shopping supposed to be fun??), a bumpy
detour, and money issues since our bank was bought and trouble ensued
(but it worked out and is getting resolved).

We'll be staying home for Christmas, so this was a nice pre-holiday
vacation. We've decorated the house a bit with a real fake tree and
African carved gourd ornaments which are pretty cool. We're playing
Christmas music, making something resembling cider, and wrapping gifts,
but with the warm weather it's still a challenge to realize this is
actually the Christmas season although we never miss all the commercialization that you are surely getting.

So here's a "warm" season's greeting from Africa: Merry Christmas to all of you, our family and friends - we sure wish we could celebrate with you this year but will eagerly anticipate seeing you in '08.