Pics- House Opening Party

The House Opening Party was extremely successful! It rained (which is considered a blessing) the night before and the morning of the party so we were quite blessed:) Despite the rain and mud everyone seemed to be able to make it. We planned for about 150 people but we served over 200 for lunch. Then friends from Nairobi came for the evening party and we ended up with over 60 overnight guests! People were sleeping everywhere! I'm not sure how we managed to feed everyone but no one went hungry.

The priest blessing the house

Thankfully, the mamas were amazingly helpful and we couldn't have done it without them. They arrived on Friday night to start preparing the food. They stayed over night and were up at 4am on Saturday to continue. Lunch was served at 2 and then they cleaned up and then started preparing dinner. They stayed over on Saturday night also. It was truly a community effort to pull off such a party- another thing that I love about Kenya.

Mass

I was welcoming everyone and Njoroge was my translator

The mass

The priest blessed each room

The mamas preparing food

Cutting meat- over 150 lbs! Thanks to Wahome for
donating a goat!

Peeling potatoes from our garden

Cooking tea

Making chapati

Cooking stew

Guests

Children singing a song for us.

Guests

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Our high school boys

The evening party

Good times