Jun. 23, 2007 - Leaving Malawi...
We had a great stay in Malaw and this last hotel at the Lake was wonderful. Unfortunately we have to leave today. I wish we could stay a few more days...next time. It has been very windy here. I've never seen waves like this on a lake.
As we were heading to the airport (about an hour away) we realized we still had about 100 lollipops left. We always buy them to give out as treats to the children...they love it and always come swarming to get that special "sweetie". We made a couple of stops along the way to see the church at Salima and the Baptist clinic that was started by friends of Roy and Patsy's. At the clinic is a water pump and there were women and children there pumping their water for the day. We gave them a handful of sweeties and then made a couple of other stops along the way handing out sweeties when we would see a group of children along the road. They were always so surprised to see us stop and give them something for free...especially something that they rarely have the money to buy. They very happy and did what I call a dance of rejoicing. The children would run away from the car shouting, dancing and waving at us...so sweet.
We fly to Nairobi and spend the night and head out to Istanbul tomorrow morning. We had dinner at Java House...the best food in Nairobi...love it. We always try to go there when in Nairobi. It was so good.
We are finally able to do laundry again here...we have a washer and dryer in the guest house and it's wonderful. We are up very late washing clothes, but it's so nice to be able to do laundry again.
