Sunday morning, the day of rest and sleep ins…well not according to Sonita (Jax) who was promptly up to assist in the cleaning up of last nights dishes, leaving me to sleep in by closing the door behind her as she left our room. Little did she know that when she closed the door she also broke it, promptly locking me in! I wasn’t sleepy, but after finding the door broken and unable to get out, I kept quiet and used the peace and quiet to read and rest in my little prison!
An hour and a half passed, and I was sure she wasn’t coming back to let me out! But also I was quietly hoping the dishes would take that little bit longer! I just knew she would be jealous when she found out!
Soon enough she came back to ‘wake me up’, the door seemed to open fine from the outside, and she was gutted to find me in my ‘cell’. I was later forced to fix the door as punishment.
Sunday was spent as the laziest day in Africa, as we figured we hadn’t had a day off since our Safari. We read, wrote, beaded and generally relaxed the day away. We didn’t even work up a sweat so both decided we didn’t deserve a shower, especially as we got a visit from the ‘tankman’ explaining that soon our water in the tank will be gone, and we to will have to resort to the dirty dam water which we did not like sound of, and probably would not survive on that water.
That evening at dinner, the topic of conversation was water – despite it completely being said in Masai. This is the most excluded we had felt from the family since our arrival and felt like the young kids sitting at the adults dinner table! We do understand why though, because if the water problem is not fixed soon, it could affect this family in a big way long after we leave.
We left during the evening conversation, and despite it only bring 9:30pm we fell asleep fast.
