Thursday, December 1

When we left Ohio, we arrived at the airport two hours before our scheduled departure checked in our luggage, and went to our gate. We boarded our plane 30 minutes before it was scheduled to depart, and it departed and arrived at our next destination on time.

Thursday we left the guesthouse at 9:30AM and arrived at the airport at 10:30AM for a 12:30PM flight to Kitale. We checked in our luggage, paid excess baggage fees because we were carrying international luggage weight allowances but were traveling on a domestic flight, and went to our gate. We were informed at 1:00PM that our flight was delayed approximately one hour. At approximately 3:00PM we were told the flight was still delayed and that the airline was paying for our lunch at a nearby restaurant. Can you see the handwriting on the wall here???? When we returned from lunch about 4:00PM the airline representative took us straight to their ticket counter where we were informed the flight to Kitale had been canceled and we would be booked on their next flight out – TOMORROW! Through a series of events we managed to be booked on a flight to Eldoret which took nearly three hours because it stopped over in Kisumu. Once we arrived in Eldoret at around 7:00PM the airline arranged for a driver to take us to Sibanga. After a traffic jam, pitch blackness (no street lights here, folks!), and pouring rain, the other passenger who was diverted with us asked the driver to find a gas station so he could “use the facilities.” It’s now 9:00PM, we had started this day on the road at 9:30AM and I wanted to scream, “Didn’t your mother teach you to do that BEFORE you left home?????” Finally in Kitale to drop off our passenger, we drove on to Sibanga where we arrived at Zippy’s home a little after 10:00PM where dinner, of course, had been kept warm for us. And THIS, my friends, is why you don’t plan on trying to get a lot of things done on any given day in Kenya!