by AmeenaBlogArchive | Nov 3, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Food
I love soup. That is one of my favorite things about fall in the northwest…cooking warm or spicy foods to warm you up after being out in the wind and rain of Portland. It’s never really like that here in Kenya. It pretty much feels like summer...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Nov 2, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Uncategorized
I’ve never been real keen on the idea of Halloween….except that I love the whole costume and candy part. Around the first part of October, we received an email from the Embassy warden, who is basically an American in our area of Kenya assigned to keep...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Oct 31, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family
That was the subject line of the email we received from Ian’s mom yesterday. Seems like they think Ian was doing 50mph in a 35mph zone in downtown Beaverton last week. Funny, though not really since I SOLD that car to an insurance fellow about a YEAR ago!! It...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Oct 24, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kids
That’s the phrase a Kenyan will say to us if they haven’t seen us in a while. It’s kind of cute. I usually hear it from Godfrey, the guard at the gate to the Del Monte plantation that surrounds Eli’s school if I’ve been using a...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Oct 11, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Food
Our night away into Nairobi for our anniversary was fabulous. As I said before, we began our evening with dinner at Cafe des Arts. They have a wonderful patio dining area that is covered by a large tent cover. It is a lovely place to relax and enjoy good food: ...
