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.