Day Four...A Dirt Road Ride in the Country!

Today was a very relaxed day since yesterday was so busy.  I hung around the house this morning and actually ate my first ever fresh sugar cane from the front yard!  It was very good...you just suck the juice out and then spit the rest of the stuff out (kinda like the inside of bamboo).  And I got to meet the goats where our milk has been coming from! The baby goats are so cute!  Then in the afternoon we went way out in the country to Penny's brothers house for a BBQ.  They brought me back pizza from the city so that was my first encounter with goat meat pizza and it was actually really and the orange Fanta was fantastic...so much better than the ones we have back home, not really sure what they do but it has a lot more flavor!  We passed pineapple fields (Dole and Del Monte and for some reason I thought pineapples grew on trees... man was I wrong, they grow in the ground).  The farther out in the country we got, the more  animals we saw.  I saw donkeys, goats, cows and dogs just walking around alone and when we got to their house, they had a whole farm of animals!  And you know I love animals but these are not like our animals, they are not pets at all.  They are all raised to sell or eat and the dogs are raised as guard dogs so you can't pet them.  We had the traditional Kenyan feast of rice, goat and pea stew, cabbage, carrot salad, fresh chicken (as in it was killed 2 hours before we ate it), and then finally BBQ which is roasted goat that you eat like we eat beef ribs just not as much meat.  Everything was very good and everyone was so friendly and treated me just like family.  They wanted me to talk so the children could hear my accent.  One thing that sticks out to me about every family gathering that we attend is that God is the center of the family and they give Him all the thanks, honor and praise for everything they have.  The blessings and prayers are so touching and you can see the love they have for God.  One thing I have learned is at the end of prayers you say grace which is:

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more." Amen.

I would LOVE it if all my family, church family and friends would learn and start saying this at the end of your prayers...it is beautful especially when everyone is saying it in unisone! 

Bye-Bye for now / Kwaheri Ya Kuonana

Leslie / Chiro