Busy day today for us. We all went to the Maasai market by about 9:30am. It's at the parking garage in the mall near Crums' house. MANY sellers with all sorts of Maasai items - scarves, baskets, carvings, jewelry, glassware, shoes, shirts, bags, etc. If you make eye contact with the seller or point to an item, the bartering will likely start then! Pat and I bought some wooden bowls, baskets, scarves, giraffe carvings and kikoys (wraps for skirts, etc.). Claire bought some jewelry, a picture frame, a giraffe shelf-sitter, and purse/bag. Kyle bought some wood and soapstone carvings, and a Maasai shield. You decide what you want from a certain seller, then they tell you their price. If it's high, you tell them what price you will pay. Then you barter until you are both happy with the price. Rachel helped us and Claire a couple times. Connie helped us know what a fair price for the baskets and bowls was. Josiah helped Kyle some, too.
Next Rachel, Claire, Connie and I went for manicures or pedicures in a salon at the mall. Claire, Connie, and I enjoyed the pampering of the pedicure. Rachel enjoyed a manicure. What a treat!
We all met in the food court and had lunch before going back to the house to finish packing and to get ready for the flight home.
We ate supper together at Java House, which is a place we have heard great things about for a couple of years from Crums. Yummy food, and nice outside dining. We all talked about what the highlight of the trip was for each of us, which we decided was the game drive on Saturday. They drove us to the airport and Connie gave us good instructions about all the steps we had to go through there. Lots of hugs for everyone came next, and some tears, too. We will miss our friends so much!
We went through security, etc. with no problems. The only glitch was that we had bought 4 liter bottles of water to take with us. We then found out that we were not all the way through security as we had thought, so we had to throw away the bottles! It was about $8 worth of drinking water! Yikes. Live and learn...
Our flight to London was uneventful - we were served a supper meal at 1am in the morning! Then we all slept some the rest of the flight. We had a 6 hour lay-over in London at Heathrow airport. We ate a traditional English breakfast there - eggs, bacon, sausage, baked beans, grilled mushrooms/tomato, toast and hash brown. Then we played a game of Euchre to kill some time. Our flight to Chicago was again uneventful. We were able to get the back to the van easily and then drove on home. We were pretty tired when we got back on Saturday evening, but we had felt the prayers of our friends and family! What a good feeling to be safely back in our own house after about 30 hours of traveling. Thank you, God, for our safety!
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