Cow Walking and Kitale Wedding

So yesterday was an awesome day.  We delivered a cow to this lady Patricia Sawa who runs Discover to Recover, a center for kids infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.  We literally walked a cow all through town and took turns holding the rope that was connected to her foot.  It was about a 4 hour walk from our house to the Sawa's, through the show grounds, stopping by Maziwa school, and eventually arriving at ICM, a seminary.  The last 15 or so minutes included rain which was kind of cool slash meant we got to take a taxi home.  We ate dinner at this couple Bud and Kimberly's who are from Texas.  They made us steak, salad, mashed potatoes, and baked beans!  All so delicious.  They are really cool and invited us girls to join their weekly Bible study.  We walked to their compound which wasn't far but because of the rain we got to carefully trek through the mud.  When we came home we all had a hot beverage of either hot crystal light, tea, or drinking chocolate.  We watched Tommy Boy to end the day.  Oh but before the movie I fell down the stairs...I'll try to get the picture because it's kind of funny slash it hurt and bruised my foot.  So yesterday was very fun.

Today was our first Kenyan wedding.  We met a teacher last week at Oasis of Hope, a drop in centre for street kids, and he gave us invitations to his wedding that same day.  So Joseph and Irine (we like to call her Irvine) got married today.  The invitation said 10:00 A.M.  We planned on leaving at 9 to walk there which means the 5 of us were ready at 9 and my dad at about 9:20 when he still wasn't ready said "should we call a cab".  The cab driver came at 10:30 because he heard the wedding was running late.  So we show up around 10:45 where we mingled and sat til 12:45!!!!  The ceremony then consisted of a choir singing what sounded like the same song over and over, then the boys walked in, then another song, then the girls SLOWLY walked in, then 3 pastors spoke, then came the "I do's", then the vows, then the rings were exchanged, then the pastor prayed with them.  Oh and it had started to rain so when it was finally over we got to go inside where about 45 minutes later they brought us some fantastic (or as allison said FANTAtastic) lunch.  Throughout the ceremony we ate a bag of beef jerky (THANK YOU JOHN!!), took some pics, the rusted pole that was holding up the "tarp" above us fell down, and my dad fell asleep.  We are all currently watching Mean Girls, and I am going to make some drinking chocolate after I post this.  Tomorrow will be church at Pastor Wanyonyi's Deliverance Church and Monday we will be heading to Oasis of Hope!!

Special shout out to Jake for his birthday yesterday!!!