We have had inquiries of what our house looks like, so here is a pictorial tour.

This is the room between our bedroom and the bathroom. There is a small closet to the right of this picture. We use this room mostly to store dirty laundry (under the table) and Lisa’s school stuff on the table. There are also things to remind them of Reno, picture books from family and things hung on the walls.

This is our bathroom. There is no water to the shower. The sink works though!

Our bedroom. The bed is huge! The girls are coloring on it. Notice the painted cement floors. You can also see on the far right the cell phone plug in near the ceiling. Plug-ins are random in number and placement (there are none in any bathrooms, one-two each bedroom and six in the dining room?)

This is looking from the room that the first picture was taken in to the bedroom. See the outlet at the top with the transformer on the table. Weird placement! The door directly ahead goes out to the porch.

A view from the door mentioned above. This is the closet that is built into the room. There are eight switches on the wall. Four work.

If you were to walk straight out the door, this is the view. Flower plants, and beyond that to the left you can see a little shine, this is the dam. In the middle behind the trees is a golf course.

You can see the dam a little better, this is looking slight left from our door.

Better picture of the flower fields. They prune the plants and send the flowers when they are still buds and not bloomed yet.

Ah, this would not be complete without an outdoor WC (water closet), Loo, Choo, Bathroom, squatty potty. You choose the name, but this is an outside toilet.

On the porch outside our room lives wasps. Different that I have ever seen in the US. They are black and large with brown wings. You can see it building a nest like paper wasps.

Here is Katriel helping out with the laundry. If it is nice out (like the day the picture was taken) it is done outside on this porch. If it is cold, it is done (always by hand) in the bathtub. It usually takes 2-3 days for it to dry it is so damp here,

Looking back with our room on my left, the flower fields on the right, ahead is the girls room.

This is the girls room, notice the fancy way we put our curtains open, you roll them and tuck them into the bars on the windows. It works! There are no nails or other ways to affix things to the cement walls, so they are fairly plain. When we move into a house of our own, I hope to overcome this.

Girls closet. There is a picture from one of our friends, Aspen, that Jaden received before we left Reno. Also there is a card from Aunt Devone that Jaden has held onto on her door. The Angels from Chris are there as well and the jacket from Marian is on the door. Cool to see your things in Kenya huh?!? Oh, and notice the nightlight. This took about two weeks to find and was $10.00. If only there was a dollar tree here.

Leaving both rooms, you go down a long hall to a landing. This is the front of the house.

To the right of the couch above, there is a door, this is immediately out that door. Another porch, with a gate 15 feet in the air? We try not to use it. You can see the car port and the car we are using. It is a Suzuki Scudo. On the far left is a corrugated metal shack in which a night guard would sleep (we don’t have one for our inside gate.)

I am now standing by the couch looking to the top of the stairs, the door in the back is Suzanne’s room. Notice my attempt at decorating! There is also a Nairobi map. Look at the floor too. They really are beautiful.

Going down the stairs. Again, the cement work is beautiful through out the house. There is a heart on the step.

Almost downstairs. To the left is the front door. Straight ahead is a half-bath. Door on the right is the sitting room in which I have set up a TV (no reception) that we can watch movies on Friday night. The window on the right with the bars goes to the dining room

Sitting room. We entertain guests here as well. Yes, we have guest over. The flamingo on the bookshelf was a gift from one of our Kenyan friends.

Kitchen. Very nice! I like it a lot. Roomy. The oven/stove is a lot smaller than US. There is a tank between it and the wall for propane and the oven and one burner are electric. Great view out the windows too.

Refrigerator. Half and half actually, the freezer is about the same size as a US, which makes the fridge about 2x2 feet. It is in the pantry.

Another view of the pantry, most items, eggs, veggies, fruit are consumed within a day or two and not refrigerated. Notice the bag of Tootsie pops. Thanks women’s bible study! We brought these with us. The Tupperware supplied by the women’s ministry is invaluable. Since there is little covered storage, having airtight containers is invaluable!

Where we make tea and the water filter.

Dining area.