Entering Africa

I kept watching the personal screen provided for me on the British Air 767. I clicked through the various entertainments offered, but I always returned to the map option that showed us where we were in airspace, how long to our destination, how quickly night was covering Nairobi. We landed, and all of our AIM contingent whizzed right through immigration and customs, though it took 2 hours for all the luggage to appear. The Nairobi winter night was cool and damp as Jim and our drivers loaded the baggage. Soon Jim, our AIM friends, and I were tearing down the Mombasa Highway to the the guest house while Jim and our driver bantered and joked.
The next morning we woke to the cries of an Ibis. We soon found that in the Kenya winter wonderland there are flowers everywhere and on a scale that West Virginia gardens cannot match. Lantana shrubs, bougainvillea, mother-in-law tongues (lush in beds, not pots), cannas. Our walk to nearby Nairobi Baptist confirmed that. Flowers simply everywhere.