Judie’s best friend at school is a boy named Esau. He is also an orphan and lives in a children’s home run by a Swiss flight attendant and another woman from Australia here in Ngong. I’ll call them B and D. They board 25 children and care for another 50 in their homes in a slum of Nairobi.
Yesterday they had planned a hike to where the wind turbines sit on the top of Ngong Hills and invited us to join them.
We started out around 10 am it was already over 70 degrees. We walk up is on a very dusty road that on a Saturday morning had a surprising amount of traffic.
The view from the top was spectacular! It truly is like being on the top of the world.
The kids played football, hiked around the top of the hill, laid in the sun and chatted with their friends. D had driven a car up in case some of the smaller children needed a lift down the mountain. B called it the catering car because it carried water and a picnic of sweet bread, crisps, biscuits, pineapple, oranges, bananas and juice.
We spent a few hours gazing at the view, playing and taking pictures. It was nice to spend time with other mzungus (white people) and really fun to hang out with their children.
When we got back to the children’s home we were given lunch of kuku (chicken) and rice, we took off our shoes while we were eating and found that the dust and gotten not only to our socks but to our bare feet!
D gave Judie and I a ride home, where we proceeded to shower and collapse. But what a lovely way to spent a Sunday.
P.S. – I didn’t totally skip church. I did go to the first hour of the service at PCEA Enchorro Emuny!
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