Thursday, November 20, 2008

as close as I'm going to get...


Hi from the Kenya Kenyatta Airport!

My computer died about five days after my arrival in Ghana so right now, I am at an internet cafe at the airport paying $2/15 minutes to be online. It is so worth it.
So... in October 2008, I spent 1-2 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya and I absolutely fell in love with the city and its people. I became so enamored in fact that since then, I have been trying to find a way back to Kenya.

I thought I'd finally done just that when I finagled my way onto a project that was supposed to start at the end of October and would allow me to spend 2-3 weeks in Kenya (dreams of a hot air balloon ride over the Masai Mara were pretty much a constant for most of my September). Two days before I was to leave however, I wound up going to Texas.

Yeah... so not the same thing (which isn't to say Texas is not without it's charms. Yeah, barbecue!).
But now, I have finally made it back!

Yes, It is just the airport.

And it is a ridiculously early hour in the morning and I am barely awake after flying through a whole night. And on some level, I suppose airports don't really count as being in the country.

But... I've been praying for a year to get back to Kenya, Now I have.
If nothing else, it really does confirm for me that God has a rather charming sense of the ridiculous.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Happy Birthday Bennett

Traveling is an incredible opportunity. There are moments when I sit back and think... seriously, am I really in [insert name of country]? But the downside of traveling is that I miss a lot of events that I wish I didn't, like a birthday party for a pretty spectacular little boy named Bennett who turns two today.
So Bennett, ten years from now ('cause you can't read yet) when you are going through the albums and wonder why I am not in any of the pictures, you should know that even through I wasn't there, I was sitting in a hotel room in Ghana praying that God would grow you in amazing ways and thanking Jesus that you are in my life.
Happy Birthday Bice! I hope you have a day filled with cars that all belong to you!
I love you lots and lots and lots (way more than Rob for example) and can't wait to see you in a few months.