Saturday, June 26, 2010

Team one travel and arrival!

Hi All! Team one has all arrived safely in Kateli! The five of us that traveled through Egypt had an exhausting but awesome visit. I got one good nights sleep in the hotel in Luxor which was quite a hotel with a floating pool in a barge on the Nile and all. We pushed ourselves to see as much as we could in the time we were there and all agreed that that it was an awesome experience. We arrived in Cairo after our all night trans Atlantic flight and hurried off to the train station on the other side of the City.We were able to get sleeper births on the train and traveled all night to Luxor. We arrived in Luxor at 6:30 AM, went straight to the Hotel and they let us check into our rooms at that hour! Then it was off to the valley of the Kings and the rest of the West bank. We had eaten on the train so except for drinking lots of water, the temp was well over a hundred, we didn't stop to eat until dinner time. In the evening we took a falouka ride out across the Nile, and the wind died down so we all had a turn at rowing back! The next day we walk to and spent a large part of the day at the Karnak temple which all agreed was awe inspiring! In the afternoon we went for a swim and then went to the Luxor museum,as well as taking a walk around Luxor and doing a little shopping. In the evening we went to out to eat and then caught the train back for Cairo. Getting off the early in the morning again we went to Giza and the pyramids then out to Sakkara for more rode camels went to another museum then on to the airport and our Flight to Nairobi! We left Cairo at 10:45PM and landed in Nairobi at around 4AM. By the time we got through immigrations it was going on 5 and we had coffee and played cards until time to catch our plane to Kateli at 9:30AM. Todd and Jena had arrived the night before and met us at the gate. After an hour flight to Kateli, Daniel met us at the airport, took us back to camp (quite up scale!)where we dropped our bags and then went to the Hotel in town for lunch. After lunch we drove out to the work site. We staked out the 2 dorm building so the area could be leveled up. While there some of the kids that are going to be living there had a welcoming presentation for us and Martin had a welcoming speech. We went from there to another of Daniels projects which is an orphanage with kids who our all HIV positive. From there it was back to camp and dinner. Which brings you up to where we are now tired and ready to crash!!! There have been a lot of little adventures along the way that we will share with you when we get home but, God is good and everything is going well! Will try to post some pics at sometime butat the moment I am too tired!!! Love to all,God Bless!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds so exciting...wish I were there. Blessings and prayers are going out to you for all your hard work. miss ya ~lisa

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  2. Today you have answered the long asked question, Can ya Kenya?" With His divine guidance we witness the answer, "OH YES WE KENYA!!!"
    Blessings to Martin, Ruth, The Children, Daniel, you and the team.
    With our continued prayers,
    1st Pres Congregation (in morning worship service)

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