Today marks the beginning of change for us.  We’ve been putting it off long enough, but after I made the suggestion this afternoon that maybe we should start packing it wasn’t long before our living room was a mess of boxes and suitcases.  Our move to Juba is scheduled for June 8.  We’ll try and send a bit of stuff up every week on regular MAF flights starting this Monday when I fly up to spend the week assisting the Juba base.  Somehow deciding what to send and when to send it is more challenging than it feels it should be. 

Every weekend this last month we’ve been out of the city cramming in as much of Kenya as we can.  We’ll certainly miss living here – our friends, our church, delicious fresh fruit, beautiful landscapes, Snoopy…not so much the chaotic traffic and waking up 6 am on Saturday’s to haul water because there isn’t enough pressure to reach our inner tank. 

I hitched a ride a few weeks back in MAF’s pressurized PC12.  Leaving flight level 270 for descent into Nairobi, Kilimanjaro appeared crystal clear above the clouds and was covered in snow.  This is fairly uncommon these days.  Kili has lost massive amounts of snow over the last few decades.  Seeing it so full of snow now we decided it would be a good time to go camping in Amboseli, a game park just north of the mountain.  So last weekend we did.  Some friends from Rosslyn joined us and of course I was explaining numerous times how much snow there would be and how awesome the views were going to be.  We were only in the park a few hours before the clouds cleared giving us our first sight of the highest mountain in Africa.  Except there was no snow!  I was mildly embarrassed.  It seems it was just the lighting on the mountain when I saw it from the air that gave it the appearance of being snow-covered.  Even without the snow we were still able to enjoy the abundance of wildlife in the park.

- Looks like snow to me...I saw it twice like this in a month

But really there ain't so much.