Last Day In Kenya... or so we thought!

Sunday wasn’t easy to “come down” from. The intensity of 6 hours of worship, followed by lunch and a meeting with the elders meant having left for church at 6.30am we arrived home for rest at 4.00pm!

We decided to use our day of rest to visit orphans in the morning ... the orphaned elephants. The Kenyans run a very special program here in nurturing baby elephants who otherwise would not survive in the wild. They nurture about 15 cub elephants - they have been rescued from the loss of their mothers to poachers. They require milk feeding every three hours, 24 hours a day!

Following this we visited the giraffe feeding centre which is a beautiful home for families of giraffes in which you can hand feed them. The highlight being: seeing a three-hour old giraffe running around the enclosure!

David Pearce has been very helpful for us and he reserved the co-pilot’s seat for Carey on a trip out West. I will let Carey tell the story.

… What an experience! David gave me a run down of all the different instruments in the cockpit and what they all used for, it was fascinating! We picked up a mission team from the States who had spent a few weeks at a local orphanage. Obviously a plane landing in this community was quite an event, it looked like half the village had turned out to see the spectical!  I was a tad nervous when our runway turned from tarmac to grass halfway through the landing! But David reassured me this was one of the better airstrips MAF uses! Being a small part of what MAF do on a daily basis was an amazing privilege, it really is such a vital ministry, and these guys do it remarkable well. It was very refreshing to stop and pray for a safe flight before takeoff, they certainly don’t do that on Qantas! Although I did tell David that I thought the in-flight movie selection could be improved…

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We took David and Lisa to the Ethiopian restaurant and then the Java coffee house for dinner.

Early rise at 5am (even ahead of the call of the mosque!) and the usual struggle with bags and taxi and checking through security at the airport ... to be met by a very patient Kenyan Airways man who explained empathetically that the flight would not go today but tomorrow!

So they've paid for rooms at a hotel in Nairobi. They paid for internet use and for three meals!

Although it holds the program in Zambia for a day - I think we'll cope OK!

We’ll leave you with some photos David took during our visit to the game park the other day,

John and Carey