Michelle’s take

In our last post we spoke briefly about how Colleen’s brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Michelle Ramsay, had just arrived to visit us.  Our two weeks with them have flown by, and we just took them to the airport to fly home!  Here’s a picture of Michelle, Brian, and Colleen on their first day. 

Michelle, our sister-in-law, wrote up a blog post about their experiences here: 

“This is Michelle Ramsay (Colleen's sister-in-law) with a guest post!  Brian and I have just left Kenya, and we're already missing it!  Here's a summary of our stay:

Our trip to Kenya has been very memorable, to say the least!  We spent hours with the beautiful children at the baby center (see picture of Brian with Malachi and Ronny); going on walks to the nearby farm, letting babies drool all over us, watching kids color themselves with sidewalk chalk, helping babies walk, and just loving on the kids as if they were our own!

We also experienced the Kenyan life, in a way.  Brian played soccer with the Ngata soccer group.  I tried learning the beautiful Kiswahili language, and became an expert on how to count to ten.  We visited an average home, a primary school (see picture of the beautiful children singing us a song), two church services, and even Sunday School.

Visits to Lake Nakuru National Park, Thompson Falls, the Crater, and hiking Mount Logonot satisfied the explorer in us (see picture below of us overlooking Mt Longonot crater).  This is especially true for Brian and Cason, who practically hiked into the waterfall at Thompson Falls!  If you are a mother to either one of these two, please don't look at those pictures when they are posted.

Differences between Kenyan life and American life?  It seems that Kenyans dress their babies in many more layers than we do.  There are few traffic lights or stop signs outside of Nairobi; just roundabouts.  The soccer fields and streets are a little rougher, and the homes smaller. The kids almost always wear uniforms to go to school here.

But overall, there are many more similarities than I expected between Kenyan and American life.  Everyone gathers to watch the big game. There will always be crazy drivers.  The babies still have that delicious baby smell.  Everyone has a cell phone.  Children in Sunday school sing "Father Abraham".  Although for some reason, Father Abraham and driving are much more fun here in Kenya :)

Thanks be to God for giving us this great experience, and may God continue to bless Cason and Colleen's efforts here in Kenya.”

Thanks Michelle!

We’ll post again tomorrow since we’ve finally got some time this weekend… Cason is looking forward to watching the Colts in the Superbowl, even though it is on at 2am here! 

We may be on Skype during the Superbowl (depending on electricity and internet availability… this is Africa after all…) so look us up at casonandcolleen while the geriatric Who are rocking at halftime. 

Special thanks to Michelle for her guest post. 

Cason

PS – We’ll put up some facebook albums soon and link to all of the pictures.