Two more days

In two more days (on the third of august) were going back home... Were ready for it (more or less). Nynke has been sick last week. We've been sick on and off in any case, but this was the worst so far. We were in Kericho at that moment. Kericho has a very nice "Tea Hotel". The tea is not that great (go figure), but they have nice cottages. Luckily we could get a discount because of our long stay in Kenya, so it was even affordable. In our first night, Nynke developed (or what ever you want to call it) some problems with her digestive system. We were happy to be in a self-contained cottage with our own bedroom. She was on a steady diet of ORS for 1 1/2 days. We stayed there for 3 nights and even called some friends in Kijabe for advice (because with a fever, the first thing we thought of was malaria). Luckily, Nynke felt better on day three and (with some help of loperamide) we were fit for travel on the fourth.
We visited some friends in Kijabe (one night) and now were back in Nairobi.
So far we saw a lot of the country, but less than we would have wanted... It was a very good time to see some friends, sponsor kids and nature, but we missed some other nice people, nature and cultural activities just because we were sick, tired or both. We skipped some of our plans to visit place A and/or B, just because it wouldn't be good for our rest or health... But we enjoyed our time and we learned a valuable lesson:
Even though we have a small budget, we are not the small budget travellers :). We need places with good food, good sleep and rest on our vacation. We'll remember this whenever we will travel in the future. Were sitting out our time in Nairobi and are doing just a few things we really need/want to do (like some shopping and seeing the elephant orphanage). So we'll be rested enough (hopefully) to come home on a night flight.

Looking back over the whole time here, we learned a lot, grew as persons and in our relationship with each other and with God. We're coming home as Nick and Nynke, but not the same Nick and Nynke that left the Netherlands almost 5 months ago. So enjoy the new us :-)
We hope to see a few people soon when we get back and were already planning some visits. We hope you enjoyed our blogs, we'll post one (maybe two) more when we're back, just for fun. Enjoy the last part and see you later!

God bless,

Nick and Nynke

Through our travels we learned a few ways how people try to sell you stuff:
- They shove the corn (almost) right up your nose
- They call you friend (even though they have no clue to what your name is)
- They say they'll give you a good price, but we know that it takes at least 5 minutes of haggling to come to that good price
- They sell everything on the side of the road, even 3 week old puppies (calling them watchdogs?!?!) and bunnies
- Buy my ... (fill in the blank), it's only 500 Shillings... "No thank you." Okay, make it 300 Shillings... "No thank you, I don't need it." Okay, make it 100 Shillings. (and so on)
- "Come into my shop, looking is free"
- Fifty guys selling exactly the same (sodas for instance) and all of them trying to sell it to the people who say, no thank you

There's probably more, maybe we'll add, but you can think of some more tricks...