The Nairobi Show

All this week has been the Nairobi Show, a fairly bizarre fair celebrating all things Kenyan, it's absolutely massive. There are loads of stalls about all sorts of thrilling things like the the ministry of roadworks, my personal favorite was the ministry of agriculture becuase out the front of the stall was a life size model of one cow mounting another cow with a farmer standing by cheering them on!! There's also a fairground with some rickety unsafe looking rides and an arena where they do various shows with dancers, marching bands and dramas which are funny if you understand swahili apparently.

I went to the show yesterday with Lillian, Lillian's brother Peter, Lucy Katunge and her baby Grace. We had an awesome time, it was amazing to be able to take them out of the slum and have a proper day out together. Driving them in the car was pretty funny, they werent too sure hot to open and close the doors, we had to stop a couple of time to get them properly closed and I had to explain the shotgun rule to them in order to stop an all out war over who would sit in the front!!

At the show we saw loads of animals, the guys saw guniea pigs for the first time and rode camels and fairground rides for the first time. We went dancing wherever we could find some music playing, we ate loads and we went to the show in the big arena. It was so so much fun. Baby Grace had an ace time, we got her a balloon hat which she was completely in awe of for the rest of the day.

I kept thinking about how Jesus has promised us life in all its fullness, life for most people in Kibera is just about finding food for another day, I know it was only one day out for four kids in Kibera but it was flippin awesome to see them enjoying themselves so much. So I'm keeping my eye out for other stuff we can do together.