Monday - Garden party

Monday's blog. Yesterday was our day of rest so we decided to take the opportunity to see Africa's animals and went on a safari. We had a brilliant day seeing lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebras and giraffes. When we arrived home, Harry was there having completed his Mount Kenya climb in 4 days - what an amazing achievement.
Today Rose's garden was turned into a school as the Kenyan Government have

put a ban on schools running in holiday time. The usual activities took place and then all but Kevin and I went to visit a local charity run pottery place and made some pots. Kevin carried on entertaining the children while I picked, washed and prepared vegetable for their lunch. Unfortunately another storm arrived and so all the children had to shelter in the greenhouse (not glass and very large). After lunch I had 10 of the children write letters to their penfriends. Lorraine, Alex, Cameron and Natasha went to get some shopping. Cameron even managed to continue his love of afternoon naps in the supermarket when he found a sofa! The first car arrived to take some of the younger children home and after a while I went to check the greenhouse and discovered 26 children still there as the driver had not returned!

We had a blocked toilet in the evening caused by the children (some of whom had never used a western toilet) all wanting to use it during the day - even if they didn't need it! With the toilet blocked we had to use the garden; Natasha shrieked when she found out but her and Lorraine went off to go only to find on returning that the toilet had been fixed and nobody had told them!