Zoe found a small (40cm), lime green snake in the mossie net above her bed this morning! OMG!!!! Thankfully she was not in it & it was on the outside of the net. We are staying in a thatched banda at the beach. She was so calm about it .... "Daddy, there's a snake up there." At first we thought she was playing & did not even really pay a lot of attention. Thankfully this time we could call for help to "usher" our visitor out. Scared ourselves (thanks to a...

Left the lovely Usumbaras after a short but nice stay that included breathtaking lookouts, chamelion encounters & colourful markets. We'll have to go back once the kids up to hiking as some gorgeous trails begging to be walked. After a bumpy, dusty 6.5 hour drive we arrived at the beautiful coast. A challenge to find as hardly any signage & well meaning locals kept pointing us in the completely wrong direction! Our lack of Swahili & Aussie accents t...

 It's now first day of our holidays... if you can count the last few months of amazing experiences as work!! We had a beautiful farewell by Plaster House for our last day. When we arrived they had decorated the house with lace cloths & had all the kids off the beds & assembled outside. All the kids got cupcakes & sweet tea (a real treat!) they then had a lovely ceremony where they gave us a thankyou speech and dressed Adam & I in African clothe...

In busy wrap up, cleaning & packing mode. Reeeeeally missing a washing machine after 2 hours of handwashing sheets & towels this am. My last day of work tomorrow. Adam's was today. He coordinated a first aid course for maasai and then raced bk to do teacher training. It is nearly 11pm and he is madly working on the computer studying. Crazy days for him poor thing but hes doing great things. I have heard a whisper that Plaster House has organised a farew...

Well, what a week! On one extreme, we've had the heartbreak of witnessing a little albino patient covered in brusies from a suspected beating, treating some of the most severe club foot deformities and burns contractures I've seen to date and trying to break the news to my patient's family that she wont walk again. Adam also saw children at a school being caned. On the other end of the scale, we've had our gardener's baby born... and named Zacharia after Zachary....