I have returned!!! My trip to Kenya was amazing!

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Posted by 7 on Oct 27, 2007 in Uncategorized

Hi there all.

Yup. Before anyone says it, I know… It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. There is absolutely no excuse for this so I’m not going to try and make one up. I noticed, the last post was in early September. CRAZY!!!

Well let me tell you what I’ve been up to. From the 15th of September I was in Kenya for a whole month, which means I got back last Monday. (Yup. Today is Saturday, nearly 2 weeks later). I’ve just been catching up with work and working on a video for the Machakos Water Project.

Oh that’s right! I didn’t tell you guys and girls about it.

Well as you may have read in some previous posts, my mum, Shilpa Dinesh Shah, passed away last year on 26th September. Towards the end of her life here on Earth, she was Nil-By-Mouth because the valve which regulates air flow to the lungs and food and drink to the stomach stayed open so everything she drank or ate would trickle into her lungs. So being Nil-By-Mouth, and on an oxygen mask, she was constantly thirsty, and she would constantly ask for water, but we were not allowed to give her any.

When she passed over, we decided that we were going to build a water well in her name, in Kenya. So this was the main reason that we went to kenya. I’ll be posting about it soon as well. There is a trailer of the video on YouTube but watch this space and I’ll have it up here in a couple of days.

Around that, we went to see family everywhere like Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, etc. All we did, the majority of the time we were in Kenya, was eat and drink. (No wonder I feel like I’ve gained a couple of pounds!)

We went to the shopping malls, we went to visit family and have dinner and lunch and breakfast, etc, etc. We went to Masai Mara (What an experience. I’ll post pictures later.), We stayed in a gorgeous hotel in Mombasa South Coast called Southern Palms. (I would strongly urge a lot of people to go and stay there. The customer service alone was absolutely amazing!!)

The sun was so hot in Mombasa that I actually burnt my shoulders. I’ve never ever burnt any skin before with the sun!! Maybe it was because I was in the pool the whole time playing water polo and water volleyball… Hmmm… Oh well. There’ll be another post about my experience in Mombasa soon as well… You can hear ALL about my trip in the next couple of posts.

When we left the UK, it was still pretty warm. When we got back.. Boy was I in for a chill shock! Seriously cold. Oh well. That’s the highs and highers of a holiday.

Well I best get back to work.

I hope you all enjoyed your holidays if you went somewhere or if you didn’t I hope you enjoyed the weather in your part of the world!

Why not drop me a quick comment about where you’ve been and the highlights of your trip.

Waiting to hear from you all soon!

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