Friday October 16th, 2009: Toto Love painting

The hardware store where we bought all the paint!  About 12 gallons of paint were bought here to do the inside and the outside of the home.  We spent around $700 including some other supplies.

Streets of Embu, muddy and rainy.

Crazy day but productive.  Didn't sleep great but enough....

Went down for breakfast around 7 am, nice crepes, fruit, coffee and omelets for Hillie and Denise.  Paul was ready to pick us up on time at 7:20 am!  Finally at 7:45 am we were ready LOL.

1st to the orphanage to drop off Hillie so she could start moving the stuff out of the rooms and clean the walls with the house moms.  Denise, Paul, Peter, Ruth & I went to town for paint and supplies (we brought brushes and rollers from Canada).  Took 2 hours to do that!  Kenyan time I guess.

Came back and straight into the painting.  Scrapped the walls, lots of paint coming off.  Primed walls and had lots of helpers, almost too many!!!  And they are wearing their "good" clothes.  Yikes.

Paul went to fetch us samosas for lunch, we purchased 40 of them for all the workers, I think I had 1!!!! Too busy to eat!

Finally at 6pm we were done what we could as the power went out a few times, so harder to see.

Got 5 rooms primed and the hallway.  Ceilings done for those rooms too. 1 coat of paint on 2 rooms and hallway.

Van key broke so unable to leave right away.  The pastor came and got us.  Drove us plus Edna and Rhoda to hotel.  We had to displace all the kids for the night as the rooms were in a total uproar.  Edna is 13 and Rhoda 16.  We had booked the room next to us (thru Paul of course) so that they could stay with the Canadian girls.  Big treat for them.  They have never been to a hotel.

Showered and ordered dinner and power went out quickly here and there.  Had our torches (flashlights) luckily.

Went downstairs to have dinner, chicken and chips with kale and tusker beer.  Edna and Rhoda went to bed and we remained behind.  I think the hot shower, the idea of tv and no little kids around was a highlight for them!

Ndwiga and Clement joined us for beers at the hotel.  Had many!  Finally bar closed after many long talks.  But the 3 of us girls decided we needed to talk more in the hotel room!  Till about 3am!  Girls will be girls.