Luggage woes in Nairobi

 After landing pretty much on time in Nairobi, we made our way through immigration in pretty good time.  That is, until we went to find our luggage at the carousel.  Ken and Sandra beat us to that step and had searched high and low and their bags were not to be found.  Elizabeth and I took a look and came to the same conclusion.  We spent the next hour filling out paper work designed to find the luggage and then have it delivered to Little Daughters.  This did Elizabeth and I little good, since we were leaving for days of safaris and only had our carry-ons.  After meeting our driver, Willie, we went to The Hub, a mall near our lodgings and we each bought underwear, sox and some tops to get us through the weekend.  We returned to Little Daughters where the sisters provided Elizabeth and I each with our own room to clean up in.  Once we were done, we headed to Lake Naivasha, a national game park famous for its hippos and for birds of all types.  Once there, we took a boat ride and got some great looks and photos of African Fish Eagles, Hammerkops, Hippos. Ibises and others.  We had a nice lunch and headed for Catherine's school on the way to Lake Nakuru.

What should have been a 30 minute ride turned into about an hour and a half of very bad dirt roads, numerous calls to Catherine and the school and finally ended with one of the teachers tracking us down on a motorcycle and leading us for about half an hour to the school.  Even though we were late, the students stayed after school and sang and danced for us.  After each if the teachers introduced themselves, and we did the same, Catherine's sister Susan invited us in for a quick meal.

The students needed to get home and we needed to be at the Lake Nakuru Game Park before sunset or risk losing not only the drive back to Nairobi, but also forfeiting what he had paid for being there Friday afternoon.  My drivers talked to the lady ranger who was just getting off duty and somehow convinced her to let us in and to pay in the morning.  Wow, the first thing that really went right in over a day and a half on the road!

Elizabeth and I sampled from the dinner buffet and it was all quite good.  I'm ready to hopefully sleep through the night after all we've endured since Wednesday morning and will be getting breakfast at the lodge tomorrow at 6:30 before heading out on our morning safari.  Blessings everybody!