Refreshed and Relaxed!?

Hello All,
Well we had a great time on our little holiday.  We were able to read a few books (Jim read a whole fictional book of 700 pages!), sew a little, cook some good meals, and read some more.  The kids got to go swimming some (with the hippos) and play quite a few games.  We stayed in a beautiful house on a river in Naivasha with 2 other families.  Even the resident dog had puppies while we were there.   They were so cute!  We saw some interesting animals.  I will put some pictures of them here:

(How often can you get a wildebeest to pose in front of a bougainvillea!)

Oh wait, these are not native animals, these are the girls! Sallie and Becka



Here are some other pictures of our week:

This is the house we stayed in.

This is Timothy on the zip line.

This is Jim on the zip line.

This is a red thorn acacia in the back yard - amazing tree!

Looking back up to the house from near the zip line.

I wanted to add a few more pictures, but the blog is not letting me right now.  Maybe it will feel better later and let me in!

Great news this last week.  We got permission to get our "e" permits (working permits).  We should be able to go into Nairobi by the 16th or so and get our actual permits.  We are so grateful for that (just as we expired on the 26th of July - thought we might have to come home)!

This week we will be back to the grindstone.  There is sewer to deal with, a big meeting with the Bethany Kids architect to finalize details, brick making to continue, CT scanner plans to persue, Into Abbas Arms orphanage meeting to sort out details and a movie to go see (Cars 2 is showing here).

Please pray that the projects will continue to move forward and funding will be found for the Bethany Kids Children's Center.  Also, pray for the people here.  Life is difficult at best and many people are struggling.  Jim and I were talking that when we first got here, we felt like we were looking into a fish bowl (like when we were in the car or truck looking out into the streets), but now we feel like we are in the fish bowl.  Everywhere we go, people stare at us because we are white, we have a car and other things that they can't come close to.  It is great to be in the fish bowl with the people and getting involved, but it is also hard.

In His Hands,
Jullie T.