Loving Life: Busy Day in Africa

Three years ago, we started this day earlier, as most days in Kenya started for us. After breakfast we headed to another compassion project. As we pulled up to the project, we were met by many children all singing the Kenya welcome song to us. It was really amazing. At the project the kids did some drama and singing for us, and then we spent the rest of the morning playing with them. We jumped rope with them, blew bubbles, painted their faces, hula hooped, and just had a lot of fun running around and playing with them. As I walked into the church at the compassion project, I met this little girl named Vivian. She became really attached to me and did not leave my side the whole time we were at the project.

Here is a picture of Vivian and I.

The Deliverance Church we visited at the Compassion Project

The gates opening to the project, and the kids singing for us.

After we left the Compassion project, and I said goodbye to Vivian, we headed to lunch at this wonderful outdoor restaurant.

Under those umbrellas is where we ate.

The Compassion Staff from Kenya and Colorado

After lunch, we headed to the airport and boarded small plane to another part of Africa to go on a 2 1/2 day safari.

Okay, not that small of a plane, there was 40 in our group!

This was our plane

Me and one of the Kenyan Compassion Staff Members before boarding the plane

Boarding the plane to our Safari

The airport at the Safari place, we literally landed in a field

My roommate after we landed

Entering our Safari Camp

They gave us a yummy drink when we entered the camp. We were finding out our roommates for our stay at the Safari camp.

This is the tent we stayed in. These tents were really nice tents. They had beds, showers, and bathrooms in them.

Linda and I stayed roomies

Esther was our other roommate for the Safari. Esther was one of the Compassion Staff members in Kenya.

After we put our bags down in our room, we went on a few hours of the safari. We saw so many animals on the first time out, and we stayed out until the sunset.

This was one of the first animals we saw.