All we need are sunny skies...

30^th May 2011. The rainy season seems to have taken a bit of a rest so we’ve been enjoying some beautiful sunny days in Nairobi, with plenty of time in the garden and out walking the neighbourhood. There is nothing quite as magnificent as the blue of the African sky, and just seeing it makes me feel happy and more at home.

Evan takes time to smell the daisies

 Can you believe that tomorrow, we’ve already been here for 4 weeks. I can’t work out if time has flown or dragged. Some days it seems like the one, and some days the other. But we have made progress. On Friday morning the first part of our curtain order arrived – the sheers or netting. Never in a million years would I have thought I could get so excited over net curtains! Although still empty and echoing, they have made our house just that little bit more ‘lived in’ and of course, provide a little more privacy. Two of the windows are very high – they’re over the stairs and right at the top of the double volume entrance. With no ladder even remotely high enough, the curtain hanger man did some monkey style acrobatics and climbed his way up. I could barely watch it was so overwhelmingly dangerous. Obviously Health and Safety measures aren’t really that important up here…

Yay for net curtains.

Yesterday we went out for lunch with some new friends to a lovely outside restaurant called the Verandah which is inside the Utamaduni Craft Centre in Karen. The weather was lovely, the company great and the food good too. Evan had fun on the jungle jim and slide with the other kids and generally enjoyed a change of environment. He is the Duracell bunny though – busy busy busy – the little man never ever stops for a second. It was so great to see him interacting with other children, he hasn’t had much of that over the last 4 weeks (been stuck with boring mummy) that we have decided to start him at the nursery school this week Thursday. The class is for 3 hours in the morning and he will go with his nanny. Depending on how he does, we may keep taking him twice a week until the term ends at the end of June.

At the Verandah

Checking out a giant masai askari

This afternoon Evan and I are heading out to a 4 year old birthday party, which will be a great opportunity for us to meet some more people in the area and start blending into the community. Wednesday is a public holiday, so Mark will be off and I’m busy researching something fun for us to do in the area for the day. I’ll let you know what and post photos for sure later in the week.

Out for a walk with my 3 favourite boys

Wishing you a great week xxx.