Friday, May 7, 2010

Our truck has just been loaded with two wheelchairs which will be delivered to individuals who can not walk. Standing at the facility where the wheelchairs are produced (The Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya) are Brother Dickens, Roz, Sampson and Nora.
Refuse along the road in a slum area in Nairobi where one of the wheelchairs was delivered. Goats can be seen on the pile of refuse foraging for food.

Sampson with Elder Udall, standing next to a relative who will deliver the wheelchair to an elderly women who can not walk. Brother Dickens is on the far right.

My beautiful wife, Sister Udall, with a couple who have seven children. Their home, on the side of a hill, was washed away by torrential rains. The mother holds their smallest daughter and the father holds one of the blankets we delivered to them.

Sisters Udall (left) and Fox (right) check the propellor on the plane that flew us to the Masai Mara National Park in Western Kenya on April 27th, 2010 (there is some inconsistency as to how Masai Mara is spelled).

Two female lions at the Masai Mari with cubs. There are two male lions sleeping nearby (lions sleep ~ 20 hours/d). Take note Roz, the female lions do 80% of the hunting for the pride (the term used for a family of lions) but the males eat first.
An elephant approached our vehicle and came quite close. I believe he was asking us to help him with a bath since he had been spraying himself with mud and dirt to cool off.

Three male cheetahs who have been kicked out of their family group. Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on earth, with bursts of speed up to 100 km/hr or ~ 60 miles/hr (Traveller's Guide to Wildlife of Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda, Collins, p. 212, 2006).


Members of a local Masai tribe doing a dance for us after dinner.The warriors can jump vertically very high and did so during the dance. I know the NBA would have lucrative contracts for them if they ever want to consider basketball.
Love ya and/or Like ya,
John and/or Dad

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