Monday, July 02, 2012

Canada Day in Kenya PLUS Pictures

Happy Canada Day!!!
We had one great day here yesterday. We invited many of our new friends and acquaintances to come and celebrate Canada’s 145th birthday with us. We spent the morning making cookies, brownies, meatballs, fried rice, pizza, tomato salsa, mango salsa, and guacamole. It was pretty interesting watching people eat as many of them did not get that the salsas were for dipping nachos in, or that you could eat the meatballs all by themselves. We had some rather entertaining rounds of “pin the tail on the zebra,” and dodge ball, and the water balloon toss, three-legged race, yoga session, and Frisbee were all big hits too. The nuns were probably the funniest, and they really got in on all of the action.
It was great to see everyone smiling and having fun and for the Canadians it was a good reminder of how lucky we are to call Canada home. For those of you that follow the news, there have been a number of ‘incidents’ as we’ll call them in Kenya over the last week that really make you appreciate the safety of our country.
To finish our day off we made s’mores over our gas stove (the marshmallows we found were actually pretty good) and imagined that we were at home sitting around a campfire!
We have a busy week planned… our last two “Champs” sessions and a couple of school visits. Tuesday is officially our halfway point and we have booked another safari this weekend to celebrate. We are all really looking forward to getting away for a few days.
I will post pictures when I can.
Team Bununu all dressed up for Canada Day.

Sister Lilian with her maple leaf bandana.

Three-legged race.

Festus losing the water ballon toss.

Pin the tail on the zebra.


This is one of the stalls at the women's market where we buy all of our produce. So fresh, tasty, and cheap.

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