Our Anniversary

We spent the day with Tim and Diane. The night before Laura Card had been in an accident with a Matatu and needed to go get all the police and insurance stuff figured out so we dropped Diane off to meet her and headed out to run errands with Tim. Tim didn’t have many errands so in short order we found ourselves wondering what to do. It turns out that over the last couple days Kaleb (Tim and Diane’s son) had been feeling a little homesick and Tim had been contemplating a quick trip out to Rift Valley Academy to cheer him up and since we had multitudes of time on our hands and a Jamie Oliver Cookbook to deliver to Kaleb this was the perfect time.

The drive out was actually quite fast and Eric and I got our first taste of Kenyan Police when Tim got pulled over in a routine stop. We have learned a valuable lesson, know the law better than the police do and they will let you go very quickly. Tim’s pretty good at Kenyan law.
The road to the Rift Valley is more tropical and almost a rainforest compared to the other parts of Kenya we had seen and it was a delight to see all the trees, vegetation and farms. You can grow nearly every fruit and vegetable from Canada there and we saw huge piles of Rhubarb hanging on the sides of stalls. I almost wanted to get some until Tim started referring to it as Diesel Rhubarb because of the number of trucks that pass by.

RVA is huge and basically awesome! If I had to go to a boarding school I would have chosen RVA. They have two Rugby fields, a huge brand new cafeteria, dorm houses, an outdoor gym, and what seems to be a stellar music program as well as everything else you would normally find in a North American high school. All of it is set into the side of a mountain amongst a forest. The school is made up of mostly North American and Korean kids but they have over twenty nationalities represented.

Kaleb was surprised to see his dad and even more surprised to see us. He kept trying to understand that we had gone all the way home and back again, we understood it seemed a little weird, it does to us too. We were able to give him the Jamie Oliver cookbook I had picked up and he seemed excited about it. Apparently he cooks for kids in his dorm all the time so hopefully this will give him even more ideas. We also promised to send any recipes we pick up in Thailand as his favourites are Asian foods. He’s a kid after my own heart! He even goes to some Korean classes with his friends just for the food, sooooo smart!

After a short tour and many offers to Tim to come back and teach we headed back to Nairobi for lunch at an Indian place with Diane. And then home to Acacia for some relaxation, Cribbage and quiet. Not very exciting I know but I thought it was a great way to celebrate. As Andrea pointed out, who would have thought when we got married that we would spend our second anniversary in Kenya!