Weekend activities

What does a regular January weekend at the Norwegian compound look like? May be the pupils` fund raising for a field trip to Lamu is not particularly regular, but lately all kinds of money raising has been very popular among the young ones, like for instance arranging a Saturday café. And the always coffee thirsty social grown-ups willingly visit the café.

But some other activities are more common. I`m not the only one to enjoy spending the Saturday by the swimmingpool...

About once a month the people at the compound set out for a trip. Last Sunday we headed for Hell`s Gate National Park, where we rented bikes and biked into a nice picnic site 7 km from the gate. Dry weather made the animals hide, and only a few zebras and wart hogs were observed by the water hole and on the plains. But biking was nice anyway, and the landscape that inspired the artist who drew the Lion King movie is really beautiful.

Josephine`s pizza horns are the best :o)

I didn`t take a picture of the signpost saying "Be aware of flash floods", that was posted by the track down to the gorge. I would have, if I had known that we would all learn what flash floods means...

Trying to find shelter from the rain and the heavy hail... But we could not stay long before had to rush back to avoid the water that filled the gorge faster than I had imagined.

Luckily a pick-up had come to the picnic site to pick up most of the soaking wet kids and their bikes and bring them back to the gate.

Wet and happy... happy that I happened to have extra clothes in my backpack :o)