Day Six - A Day of Rest

Delphine came, as scheduled, but I unfortunately did not feel I should take the chance of travelling with my stomach still being upset. She visited for a while and promised to contact me later to see how I was feeling. Moses had to go away for the day to attend a funeral. I was left to relax, read, and recuperate. I also took advantage of the time to try to photo some butterflies and birds in the garden.

 

I decided to try the Maasai medicine again - but just the powder to snort. I used less this time and, although it burned a bit, it almost immediately had me sneezing. This loosened up the mucus and I then was able to blow my nose continuously to remove quite a bit of gunk from within. My stomach seemed to settle down - but I will refrain from drinking the 'tea' to be safe. 

Hot water update: Apparently the hot water does NOT work in my room but Nuru has kindly offered to bring me a bucket of hot water each morning that I can then mix with my bucket of cool water so I may rinse with warm water. It works. I am learning to get better at squeegeeing my floor each day, although yesterday the water ran into my room a bit. Oops! The lodge also ran out of water in the afternoon but Nuru was able to go to the reserve barrels (as seen above a building in a previous photo.)