friends from afar

Living in Kijabe, which is an hour outside of Nairobi, means we don't get too many people from afar visiting us. Yes, my dad visited for a weekend, but that was a very special case.

Last week, we were fortunate enough to have to friends from the UAE pop in for a quick visit. So they weren't here to visit us per se, but the hospital.  No matter, we enjoyed the time we had with them!  It was great to get caught up in all the happenings at Oasis, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in November, and finally working on building a grand new hospital, that should open sometime in 2012, I think.  The fact that our house was heartlessly torn down just moments after we moved out to make room for this new hospital is a bit of a sore spot, but we're working on getting over it.

So here they are!  And, this is the first self photo we have taken on our new camera. It did ok.

This is Brad, me, Luis, and Dexter. (Jana, please note the resurrection of the MN Tshirt!)

Brad oversees the Biomedical Engineer Department at Oasis, and Luis is the IT manager. They were at CURE for 3 days seeing how things work here, and trying to figure out what ways Oasis can help the other CURE hospitals.  From here, they went on down to Zambia.

We had them over for dinner, and for some reason, I couldn't think of anything "special" enough to make them for their visit.  So, I settled on Minestrone Soup, salad, homemade rolls, with a Raspberry Blondie for dessert.  It was all very tasty, and the soup was nice to have on a cool Kijabe night.  I feel a bit (ok, a lot) sheepish, though, that I didn't think to create something with pork/ham/bacon since they came from the UAE where those things are hard to come by!  The best would have been something with all of those.

Next time!

So, who's coming next??