Home time

Monday 14.04.11

I was up early to increase my chances of sleeping on the plane and was just in time to say good bye to Emily as she headed to school.  I read a bit in the morning and then Judy and I went into Karen while she ran some errands.  We grabbed some lunch at a hidden away local restaurant, which was very cheap but had good food.  We both ate rice, beans and cabbage.

At 2:30pm Barasa arrived again to pick me up for the airport.  We arrived with plenty of time to spare.  I met Tammi at departures as she had been at the cargo centre all morning trying to collect her luggage.  She didn’t manage to get that far but at least was able to complete the required documents this time.  She will return tomorrow to pick up the bags.

She also informed me that Zac is doing much better and he is off the oxygen, his eyes are both open and he is sucking his thumb.  This is such great news finally and even baby Gabriel who had gone so far down hill on my last visit, had in the last week greatly improved.  For the first time his naso gastric tube was out and he had put back some of the weight he had lost.  Finally things are looking up for some of the babies of Kenyatta National Hospital!  Tammi hopes that now Zac is ready to travel to Mombasa as soon as she can organise it.  Hopefully he will be there within the fortnight!

Tammi and I had a quick snack at the departures terminal and then it was time to say goodbye and I went and checked in.  I had a bit of a look at the duty free shops and bought some skittles in bulk - yum!  I also found a Tusker beer t-shirt in my size, and now that I have tried it I feel justified in wearing one!

It was still raining pretty constantly while I was waiting to board, which is not common for Nairobi, but fortunately it waited until I was leaving!