Day Eleven - Finishing Touches

We are supposed to travel back to Nairobi today, but on further consultations with the family we decide to extend our stay by one more day. Kazungu, the cottage’s caretaker, lays an elaborate breakfast that impresses my daughter. She thinks he is better than all the waiters she saw last week in the hotel we stayed in! After breakfast, we go to town to shop at Lulu Centre, No Maneno and Nawal Centre. We have an invitation to a friend’s restaurant at 2.00 pm. We follow that with a swim at Kigothos, where George opts to lounge in the shade while I frolic with the children. While at it, Natasha even learns how to float without the aid of a floater. She is overjoyed, as is a boy who I teach to float after suffering from the fringes of the pool! His mother is overjoyed too. As the late afternoon turns to the evening, we order some tea to chase the chill. The beverage turns out to be the best tea I have ever taken in the coast region. I will be back here, if for nothing, for the cuppa. For dinner we have burgers and pizza at the Mobil Galitos before we retire early to prepare for the long drive back to reality. Yes, the reality of unpaid bills, the reality of at least two months of brokenness, but also the pleasant reality of good memories to last the family a season.