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God is so faithful!  Coming out of the ministry time in Uganda our team was in need of some restoration.  We had been going strong for 18 days and we had begun to feel the effects.  Everyone had recovered from the bout of sickness, but we needed some rest.  Thankfully we had a few days in the city of Kampala for a mid-outreach holiday.  We stayed at a guesthouse that had nice beds and our showers and toilets were in our rooms which was a luxury in itself.  The first thing we did was find a place to do our laundry since everything smelt like the fishiness of Lambu.  We also found an amazing restaurant where we were able to get a 3 course meal, including a steak filet, for 9,900 Ugandan Shilling which is equal to around 6 USD.  We got to use the internet, do a bit of craft market shopping, saw the new Batman movie and of course slept in.  The city was quite chaotic, somewhat like downtown New York without traffic lights.  We all got to experience riding on the motorcycle taxis called boda-bodas.  There are probably at least a thousand of them within the city and they zoom in and out of the “normal” traffic which isn’t normal at all.  At one point Bethany was on a boda that got rear ended by another taxi, this is a normal event being that traffic is in the most literal sense “bumper to bumper.”   With that said one thing we observed was that there wasn’t any road rage, this was hard to believe with the craziness that went on in the streets.  All in all it was a break that was needed before we made the long journey from Uganda to Kenya.

God knows what we need when we need it and how much we can take way more than we do.  The team all agrees that God let us be in Lambu a certain amount of time, and just when we thought that we would be stuck there forever… our taxi showed up.  Then we all were so happy to be on holiday, but everything we owned smelled like fish.  God provided a laundry place where we could leave our clothes and have them washed for nearly nothing.  Bam! – Clean clothes!  Thank you Jesus!  So we knew that God would be faithful in bringing us to our next destination.  We also knew that it was going to take 14 hrs on a bus to get there…  The bus that was suppose to leave at 1 o’clock to take us to Kenya had a mechanical problem, so another bus was sent around 2 to pick us up.  This bus was a bit less in quality.  It was only suppose to take us about 3 hrs to reach the Keya border but we had to stop twice due to the bus running out of gas and a minor part malfunction. We arrived at the border at 7.  A bigger bus was supposed to be waiting for us when we got there, but it wasn’t so we all piled back into the small cold bus and proceeded on.  We were often stopped and woken up randomly by large men with large guns asking to see our passports.  Everyone was about to give up on the bigger nicer bus when around midnight we pulled over and found the bigger nicer bus waiting for us!  Thank you Jesus!  Just in time!  After a crazy bumpy night we arrived in Nairobi at 8 am, four hours later than scheduled.  There is a phrase we have learned since being in Africa for over a month… TIA (This Is Africa)… and we love it!